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Gradual   /grˈædʒuəl/   Listen
Gradual

adjective
1.
Proceeding in small stages.
2.
(of a topographical gradient) not steep or abrupt.
noun
1.
(Roman Catholic Church) an antiphon (usually from the Book of Psalms) immediately after the epistle at Mass.



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"Gradual" Quotes from Famous Books



... responsibility, this gradual benumbing of noble feeling, is not alone to be found among pleasure-seekers of the upper classes: the people also are infected. I know more than one little household, which ought to be happy, where the mother has only pain and heartache day and night, the children ...
— The Simple Life • Charles Wagner
... contrary, I think her complexion one of her chief charms. It is a warm paleness; it looks thoroughly healthy. And that delicate nose with its gradual little upward curve is distracting. And then her mouth—there never was a prettier mouth, the lips curled backward so finely, ...
— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot
... the trees and forest soil to absorb water regulates the rate at which the rainfall is fed to the streams and rivers. Frequently it takes weeks and even months for all the waters of a certain rain to reach these streams. This gradual supplying of water to the streams regulates their flow. It prevents floods and freshets. Careful observation and measurements have shown that unforested regions will discharge rain water at least twice as fast as ...
— The School Book of Forestry • Charles Lathrop Pack
... the Huguenots of France—their wars until they obtained recognition and some measure of justice in the Edict of Nantes; the gradual infringement upon their guaranteed rights, culminating in the revocation of the edict, and the loss to the kingdom of the most industrious part of the population; their sufferings "under the cross" until the publication of the Edict of Toleration—these ...
— The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Henry Martyn Baird
... grew fewer, the change was so gradual that the invalid did not notice it, and always her blindness made easy the deception of those ...
— Across the Years • Eleanor H. Porter


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