Pre-emptively?

[Wilson Gray]

Intuitively?

-Wilson

On 12/19/06, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> (Pre)eminently does not have the sense I want of forcibly taking
> away, depriving one of, any other possibilities.
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> Like Alison, I *know* there's the perfect word, but I can't locate it.
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> Joel
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> At 12/19/2006 09:14 PM, you wrote:
> >Eminently? Pre-eminently?
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> >On 12/19/06, Alison Murie <sagehen at westelcom.com> wrote:
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> >> >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!
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> >> >Thanks,
> >> >Joel
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> >>We *know* the perfect word's out there floating around, & being
> >>irritatingly elusive!  "Blindingly" would be a bit dramatic, I suppose.
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