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perfectively
Variant of perfective
adjective
- Now Rare tending to bring to or achieve perfection
- Gram. designating an aspect of verbs, as in Russian, expressing completion of the action or indicating an action that is not repeated
noun
- the perfective aspect
- a verb in this aspect
Related Forms:
- perfectively adverb
- perfectiveness noun
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