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Webster 1913 Edition

adv.

In a rude or violent manner.

adv.

In a rude manner.

brutely ‎(comparative more brutely, superlative most brutely)

In a rude or violent manner.
- 2002, William P. Alston, Realism and antirealism
  McDowell's paradigm for such a coercive relationship of world to mind is any account in which the world's impact upon us is brutely causal and that brute causal relationship is taken to have epistemic significance.