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Mainly

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Adverb
  1. 1
    Chiefly; for the most part. not-comparable

    "She had Lord James' collar in one big fist and she pounded the table with the other and talked a blue streak. Nobody could make out plain what she said, for she was mainly jabbering Swede lingo, but there was English enough, of a kind, to give us some idee."

  2. 2
    Forcefully, vigorously. not-comparable, obsolete

    "Such breadth of ſhoulders as might mainely beare Olde Atlas burthen, […]"

  3. 3
    Of the production of a sound: loudly, powerfully. not-comparable, obsolete

    "But in the end, mainly crying out, he fell to raling and wringing his master, upbraiding him that he was not a true Philosopher[…]."

  4. 4
    To a great degree; very much. not-comparable, obsolete
Adverb
  1. 1
    for the most part wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English maynly; equivalent to main + -ly.

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