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.

Synonyms

• unpreferentially