Individually
[ɪndɪ'vɪdjʊ(ə)lɪ] or [ˌɪndɪˈvɪdʒuəli]
Definition
(adv.) apart from others; 'taken individually, the rooms were, in fact, square'; 'the fine points are treated singly'.
Checker: Rene--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) In an individual manner or relation; as individuals; separately; each by itself.
(adv.) In an inseparable manner; inseparably; incommunicably; indivisibly; as, individuallyhe same.
Checker: Rosalind
Examples
- At every vote (the Jurymen voted aloud and individually), the populace set up a shout of applause. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Sorting them out carefully with his eyes after he had seen them first together, Robert Jordan looked them over individually. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Numbers together can accomplish what twice their number acting individually could not perform. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Here we most not be contented with saying, that the vividness of the idea produces the belief: We must maintain that they are individually the same. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Where it concerned me individually I can only answer: then, and always, he showed himself a true-hearted gentleman. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The people went to the temple not only _en masse_ for festivals, but individually for help. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To herself, individually, it was most tempting. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Of the lady, individually, Emma thought very little. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Duplicates were also made for each soldier and signed by each individually, one to be retained by the soldier signing and one to be retained by us. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Better for him, individually, to advocate war, pestilence, and famine, than to act as obstructionist to a war already begun. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Individually he detested and despised them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I feel that each case must be judged individually, on its own merits . Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Individually and collectively there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He was the first capitalist to back individually Edison's experiments in electric railways. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Checker: Rosalind