Pre-emptively?

[Rowan McMullin]

Obligatorily? Necessarily? Essentially? Unavoidably?

On 12/19/06, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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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