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adverb

Chiefly adv.

In the first place; principally; preeminently; above; especially. "Search through this garden; leave unsearched no nook; But chiefly where those two fair creatures lodge."

For the most part; mostly. "Those parts of the kingdom where the... estates of the dissenters chiefly lay."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Chiefly" Quotes from Famous Books

... years of her existence America has been known chiefly as a commercial nation, as a nation noted for her men of affairs, rather than for her artists and men of letters. Which is to say that the life of the Republic has been practical rather than artistic, and it is only of late years, except for ...

— American Men of Mind • Burton E. Stevenson

... Public: yet, however the limited abilities of the author may have prevented her from succeeding to her wish in the execution of her present attempt, she humbly trusts that the uprightness of her intention will procure it a candid and favourable reception. The following little Essays are chiefly calculated for the younger part of her own sex, who, she flatters herself, will not esteem them the less, because they were written immediately for their service. She by no means pretends to have composed a regular system of morals, or a finished plan of conduct: she has only endeavoured ...

— Essays on Various Subjects - Principally Designed for Young Ladies • Hannah More

... Peacock, also called Esrar or Mohur, according to the language of the tribe which uses it, is met with chiefly in Upper India, and is a favourite instrument of the ...

— Chatterbox, 1906 • Various

... raging furnace, and I personally narrowly escaped the falling debris by the rear door of my church study. The flags and decoration which had been put up for the jubilee celebration had not been moved, and they whetted the appetite of the flames. It was all significant to me of one thing chiefly, that at some points of my life I had been given no choice. At these places of surprise in my life there was never any doubt about what I had to do. God's way is very clear and visible when the Divine purpose ...

— T. De Witt Talmage - As I Knew Him • T. De Witt Talmage

... of the legal profession show that the neighborhood of Guildhall was a favorite place of residence with the ancient lawyers, who either held judicial offices within the circle of the Lord Mayor's jurisdiction, or whose practice lay chiefly in the civic courts. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries there was quite a colony of jurists hard by the temple of Gogmagog and Cosineus—or Gog and Magog, as the grotesque giants are designated by the unlearned, who know not the history of the two ...

— A Book About Lawyers • John Cordy Jeaffreson

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