nonpreferentially

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ preferential +‎ -ly.

Adverb

nonpreferentially (not comparable)

  1. Not preferentially.
    • 2017 September, Edward A. Zelinsky, Taxing the Church: Religion, Exemptions, Entanglement, and the Constitution, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 220, →ISBN:
      Those exemptions apply nonpreferentially to all religions.
    • 2000 February, Frank Guliuzza, Over the Wall: Protecting Religious Expression in the Public Square, Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 126, →ISBN:
      If government chose to support religion generally, if[sic – meaning it] must do so nonpreferentially.
    • 1980, Douglass H. Morse, Behavioral Mechanisms in Ecology, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 59, →ISBN:
      The three species of sunbirds changed from specializing on clumps with large numbers of closed flowers to visiting flowers nonpreferentially at different relative frequencies of unopened flowers.

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