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tendentiously — tendentious ► ADJECTIVE ▪ calculated to promote a particular cause or point of view. DERIVATIVES tendentiously adverb tendentiousness noun. ORIGIN suggested by German tendenziös … English terms dictionary
tendentiously — adverb in a tendentious manner the paper reported rather tendentiously on the war atrocities • Derived from adjective: ↑tendentious … Useful english dictionary
tendentiously — adverb see tendentious … New Collegiate Dictionary
tendentiously — See tendentious. * * * … Universalium
tendentiously — adv. in a tendentious manner, with a clear tendency, with a definite purpose … English contemporary dictionary
tendentiously — ten·den·tious·ly … English syllables
tendentious — tendentiously, adv. tendentiousness, n. /ten den sheuhs/, adj. having or showing a definite tendency, bias, or purpose: a tendentious novel. Also, tendencious, tendential /ten den sheuhl/. [1895 1900; < ML tendenti(a) TENDENCY + OUS] * * * … Universalium
Adelphopoiesis — According to John Boswell, the 4th century Christian martyrs Saint Sergius and Saint Bacchus may have been united in the ritual of adelphopoiesis. Adelphopoiesis, or adelphopoiia from the Greek ἀδελφοποίησις, derived from ἀδελφός (adelphos)… … Wikipedia
tendentious — adjective Date: 1900 marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view ; biased • tendentiously adverb • tendentiousness noun … New Collegiate Dictionary
Commercialization of traditional medicines — Biopiracy is a negative term for the appropriation, generally by means of patents, of legal rights over indigenous knowledge particularly indigenous biomedical knowledge without compensation to the indigenous groups who originally developed such… … Wikipedia
