Pre-emptively?

[Baker, John]

The sense, I take it, is settled or invariable custom.  How about uniformly customary?
 
 
John Baker
 

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From: American Dialect Society on behalf of Joel S. Berson
Sent: Tue 12/19/2006 7:46 PM
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Subject: Pre-emptively?



I am looking for an adverb that I can use (for example) to precede
"customary" to give the meaning "so customary that no one would ever
think of anything else".  Pre-emptively? presumptively?  Help!

Thanks,
Joel

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