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/grˈædʒuəli/ /grˈædʒuli/ Listen

adverb

Gradually adv.

In a gradual manner.

In degree. (Obs.) "Human reason doth not only gradually, but specifically, differ from the fantastic reason of brutes."

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Etymology of 'Gradually'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gradually" Quotes from Famous Books

... Prose.—You should try gradually to put together your own phrase-book. You will find this much more useful to you than any ready-made collection. Agood and simple plan is to have a special note-book for this purpose. Mark in the text as you read useful phrases, and in your ...

— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce

... might have made any one happy, even with no Golden River to seek for. Level lines of dewy mist lay stretched along the valley, out of which rose the massy mountains —their lower cliffs in pale gray shadow, hardly distinguishable from the floating vapor, but gradually ascending till they caught the sunlight, which ran in sharp touches of ruddy color along the angular crags, and pierced, in long level rays, through their fringes of spear-like pine. Far above, shot up red splintered ...

— Types of Children's Literature • Edited by Walter Barnes

... Gradually however this one man seemed to stand out from the others and finally took upon himself a name and an entity. By and by, Dick thought, when he wasn't so infernally-tired as he was just now he would wonder why Alan Massey was here and would try to recall ...

— Wild Wings - A Romance of Youth • Margaret Rebecca Piper

... direct question with a long, fixed stare of growing comprehension; his silence showed that he was gradually ...

— The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation • J. S. Fletcher

... elapsed, and gradually, as the conspirators found that no steps were taken by the government for their apprehension or punishment, they too waxed bolder, and began to fancy, in their insolent presumption, that the republic was too weak or too timid to enforce its ...

— The Roman Traitor (Vol. 2 of 2) • Henry William Herbert

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