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gratuitously

adv
/ɡɹəˈtjuː.ɪ.təs.li/UK/ɡɹəˈtu.ə.təs.li/US

Etymology

From gratuitous + -ly.

  1. derived from grātia
  2. borrowed from grātuītus
  3. suffixed as gratuitously — “gratuitous + ly”

Definitions

  1. Freely

    Freely; in the manner of a gift, without being earned.

    • We should feed and clothe him gratuitously sometimes, and recruit him with our cordials, before we judge of him.

  2. In a manner not demanded by the circumstances, without reason, justification, cause, or…

    In a manner not demanded by the circumstances, without reason, justification, cause, or proof.

    • Secondly, Mr. Browne concludes, apparently rather gratuitously, on page 441 as follows[…]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at gratuitously. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at gratuitously. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at gratuitously

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA