Severally
['sev(ə)r(ə)lɪ] or ['sɛvrəli]
Definition
(adv.) Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually.
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Examples
- While duplicates of the two letters were being made, the Union generals present were severally presented to General Lee. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The articles of the friendly move are then severally recited and agreed upon. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- As we severally pushed away our plates, he noiselessly removed them, and set on the cheese. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- But of what sort of lives they are severally the imitations I am unable to say. Plato. The Republic.
- For wisdom and courage and justice in the State are severally the wisdom and courage and justice in the individuals who form the State. Plato. The Republic.
- Having gone thus far, the two old gentlemen severally took snuff, and afterwards shook hands, according to their invariable custom. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
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