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abortively
adverb
uk /əˈbɔː.tɪv.li/ us /əˈbɔːr.t̬ɪv.li/
If something is done abortively, it has to stop because it has failed:
Her mother had tried, abortively, to persuade her to follow her career as a doctor.
He abortively attempted to break away from the group on three occasions.
The encampment was twice abortively attacked by enemy fighters but that had not dissuaded them from trying again.
The prospect of a merger was first raised, albeit abortively, last year.
A group of politicians abortively proposed renaming the capital city.
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