selectively

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English selective
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English selectively

    From selective + -ly.

    Adverb

    selectively (comparative more selectively, superlative most selectively)

    1. In a selective manner, only affecting or applying to some selected cases.
      • 2006, Markus Jakobsson, Steven Myers, Phishing and Countermeasures, page 128:
        Our prototype implements a basic pharming attack to selectively misresolve the client domain name requests.

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