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Prospectively

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pro·spec·tive  (pr-spktv)
adj.
1. Likely or expected to happen.
2. Likely to become or be: prospective clients.
pro·spective·ly adv.
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in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honor and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
She and Jane would have been altogether cheered (in a tearful manner) by this sign that a brother who disliked seeing them while he was living had been prospectively fond of their presence when he should have become a testator, if the sign had not been made equivocal by being extended to Mrs.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
then here I prospectively ascribe all the honour and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
Typee by Melville, Herman View in context
 
 
 
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