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What does prescriptively mean?

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Adverb
  1. In a prescriptive manner.
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And he was generous to many, and offered wise counsel, not prescriptively, but by gentle questioning of your own beliefs.
Genres are often seen prescriptively as a means of interpellating the subject into existing norms and hierarchies.
While the art and science of diagnosis is dependent upon comparisons among groups, clinicians should apply their choice of treatments prescriptively.
Radio New Zealand has operated quite successfully in the past without this prescriptively politically correct charter.
Again, the goal is to examine ideas and explore concepts descriptively rather than prescriptively.
These terms are used colloquially and are not defined prescriptively.

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