Mutually
[ˈmjuːtʃuəli] or ['mjutʃuəli]
Definition
(adv.) in a mutual or shared manner; 'the agreement was mutually satisfactory'; 'the goals of the negotiators were not reciprocally exclusive'.
Typist: Waldo--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) In a mutual manner.
Editor: Nettie
Examples
- Formerly, when I was very young, we had mutually sought each other. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- So that two mutually dangerous streams of anticipation were running through the minds of men in Western Europe towards the end of the war. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- God has made us so that we must be mutually dependent. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Scientific discovery goes hand in hand with invention, and they mutually assist each other's progress. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- As soon as they were in accord, they began mutually to mistrust each other. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Conceptions and propositions mutually imply and support one another. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He cannot be their merchant, nor they his customers; and they are all of them thus mutually less serviceable to one another. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The inhabitants of the town, and those of the country, are mutually the servants of one another. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- That is a poor reason for giving up a connection which I think I may say will be mutually beneficial. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- These three parts are not mutually exclusive, but the lower foreshadow the higher and are subsumed in it. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I have no doubt of their being happy together, said Emma; I believe them to be very mutually and very sincerely attached. Jane Austen. Emma.
- In all that mutually concerns you and Graham there seems to me promise, plan, harmony. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It is painful and difficult to decide when we find two claimants thus directly in opposition to each other, and mutually preferring charges of falsehood and fraud. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Air and water mutually attract each other. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- This revenue and maintenance, thus mutually afforded, will be greater or smaller, in proportion to the extent of their dealings. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- For several opera nights I saw Meyler in the Duchess of Beaufort's box, and in the round-room, and we mutually cut each other. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- These lines of ambition lay across one another and were mutually incompatible. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Thus occupied, and mutually entertained, days passed like hours, and weeks like days. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- We are to be fellow- travellers, and I hope we shall find each other's society mutually agreeable. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Miss Keeldar was like him in this respect, and they mutually approved each other's arrangements. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- When this common sense of interest is mutually expressed, and is known to both, it produces a suitable resolution and behaviour. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- If the result should be--ha--mutually satisfactory, I might afterwards engage him to try his hand upon my family. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Bessie stooped; we mutually embraced, and I followed her into the house quite comforted. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Editor: Nettie