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Principally   /prˈɪnsɪpli/   Listen
Principally

adverb
1.
For the most part.  Synonyms: chiefly, in the main, mainly, primarily.






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"Principally" Quotes from Famous Books



... voyage. From Katchuk to Irkutsk, the road leaves the Lena, and passes through a fine extensive plain, bounded on either side by well cultivated hills, and having villages and farm houses dispersed over it in all directions. This plain is principally inhabited by a horde called Burettas, who are, for the most part, Christians, and have taken to agriculture with a great deal of industry and zeal. The richer class live in log houses, but the great part dwell in cabins, similar ...
— The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 • Various

... and in crises such as these, when the very existence of the nation was perhaps at stake, it was first and principally towards the crews of the country's merchant ships that the eyes of the Navy were directed; for, shipboard life and shipboard duty being largely identical in both services, no elaborate training was required to convert the merchant sailor into a first-rate man-o'-war's-man. ...
— The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore • John R. Hutchinson

... professor's views of Quigg's head had, however, made a deep impression upon the owner of it, and had given to Quigg's ordinary observations on the weather, the state of his health, and the other familiar topics to which his remarks were principally addressed, an oracular importance in his own opinion. Such were the deceptive effects produced by his large, polished brow, and slow, imposing speech, that he always seemed to be on the point of uttering vital truths. But the listener's ear ached ...
— Round the Block • John Bell Bouton

... fortress of boned turkey with a gusto equal to that of Laura, and made highly successful raids upon certain outlying salads and jellies. The young men were not in a very ravenous condition; they were, as I have said, a little nervous, and bent their energies principally to admiring the ladies and coquetting with ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 • Various

... cabin depends principally upon the fact that valuables are not kept in such shacks, and ...
— Shelters, Shacks and Shanties • D.C. Beard


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