mainly
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈmeɪnli/
mainly (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Forcefully, vigorously. [13th-17th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938 ↗, book III, canto I:
- Mainly they all attonce vpon him laid, / And sore beset on euery side around {{...}
- (obsolete) Of the production of a sound: loudly, powerfully. [14th-19th c.]
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 31, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:
- But in the end, mainly crying out, he fell to raling and wringing his master, upbraiding him that he was not a true Philosopher […].
- (obsolete) To a great degree; very much. [15th-19th c.]
- Chiefly; for the most part. [from 17th c.]
- (forcefully) energetically, powerfully, strongly
- (loudly) earsplittingly, lustily, raucously, thunderously
- (to a great degree) a lot, extremely
- (for the most part) in the main, principally; see also Thesaurus:mostly
- French: surtout, principalement
- German: hauptsächlich
- Italian: principalmente
- Portuguese: principalmente
- Russian: гла́вным о́бразом
- Spanish: principalmente
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