Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SPEC'U-LA-TIVE-LY
SPEC'U-LA-TIVESPEC'U-LA-TIVE-NESS
SPEC'U-LA-TIVE-LY, adv.
- In contemplation; with meditation.
- Ideally; theoretically; in theory only, not in practice. Propositions seem often to be speculatively true, which experience does not verify.
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