Primarily
['praɪm(ə)rɪlɪ;praɪ'mer-] or [praɪ'mɛrəli]
Definition
(adv.) of primary import; 'this is primarily a question of economics'; 'it was in the first place a local matter'.
Checker: Marge--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) In a primary manner; in the first place; in the first place; in the first intention; originally.
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Examples
- It is perhaps natural for a European writer writing primarily for English-reading students to overrun his subject in this way. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Primarily it must have appreciation value. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The mines, for him, were primarily great fields to produce bread and plenty for all the hundreds of human beings gathered about them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This machine, which was intended primarily for the use of the blind, is illustrated in Figs. 137 and 138. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- We shall be interested primarily in the way nations established their civilization in spite of hostile conditions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The universities in England particularly, being primarily clerical in their constitution, resisted the new learning very bitterly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To say that active occupations should be concerned primarily with wholes is another statement of the same principle. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The reaper had been primarily necessary in America, because here farm labor was very scarce, and the wheat fields enormously productive. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- This road was primarily built to transport freight, and passengers were in reality an afterthought. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Mecca was not merely nor primarily a trading centre; it was a place of pilgrimage. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The service for which this car is intended is primarily to guard railroads and depots adjacent to railroads. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But practice in applying what has been gained in study ought primarily to have an intellectual quality. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This education consists primarily in transmission through communication. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- No, Professor, replied Canler, for I came primarily to see you. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It was primarily a religion of conduct, not a religion of observances and sacrifices. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The name is derived from the Greek, the use of the apparatus being primarily to measure extremely minute differences of pressure. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The subject matter of education consists primarily of the meanings which supply content to existing social life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The administration was evidently primarily a patrician affair. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It moves by the force, not merely or primarily of the scientific passion fo r pure knowledge, but also of the passion for doing good. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Indentations become raised matter, and the whole will show as did primarily the type. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- To value means primarily to prize, to esteem; but secondarily it means to apprise, to estimate. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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