committally
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]committally (comparative more committally, superlative most committally)
- In a committal manner.
- 1987, Robert Dunn, The Possibility of Weakness of Will, page 67:
- It is even a convention in some quarters (which I shall not follow) to use "I will do x" as an intentive and "I shall do x" as an indicative; or at any rate, less committally, "I will" where there is, as Fowler's Modern English Usage puts it, "an implication of intention, volition, or choice".