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ulteriorly


adjective

  1. being beyond what is seen or avowed; intentionally kept concealed: ulterior motives.
  2. coming at a subsequent time or stage; future; further: ulterior action.
  3. lying beyond or outside of some specified or understood boundary; more remote: a suggestion ulterior to the purposes of the present discussion.

adjective

  1. lying beneath or beyond what is revealed, evident, or supposedulterior motives
  2. succeeding, subsequent, or later
  3. lying beyond a certain line or point

adj.1640s, from Latin ulterior “more distant, further,” comparative of *ulter “beyond” (see ultra-). The sense in ulterior motives is first attested 1735.

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