Usually means: Holding on tightly; overly controlling.
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  1. possessively: Merriam-Webster
  2. possessively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. possessively: Collins English Dictionary
  4. possessively: Vocabulary.com
  5. possessively: Wordnik
  6. possessively: Wiktionary
  7. Possessively, possessively: Dictionary.com
  8. Possessively: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. possessively: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. possessively: Rhymezone
  11. Possessively: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. possessively: FreeDictionary.org
  13. possessively: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. possessively: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adverb:  In a possessive manner.

Similar:
possessingly, self-possessedly, dispossessively, egotistically, obsessionally, obsessively, prepossessedly, covetously, proprietarily, clingingly, more...

Types:
my, mine, our, ours, more...

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Similar:
possessingly, self-possessedly, dispossessively, egotistically, obsessionally, obsessively, prepossessedly, covetously, proprietarily, clingingly, more...

Types:
my, mine, our, ours, more...



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