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Definition of In the beginning

1. Adverb. With reference to the origin or beginning.

2. Adverb. Before now. "Why didn't you tell me in the first place?"

Lexicographical Neighbors of In The Beginning

in terms of in terrorem clause in terrorem clauses in that in that location in that respect in the abstract in the act in the adjacent apartment in the adjacent house

in the air in the altogether in the bag in the ballpark in the bargain in the beginning (current term) in the black in the blink of an eye in the buff in the cards

in the clear in the crosshairs in the dark in the dock in the doghouse in the driver's seat in the dumps in the end

Literary usage of In the beginning

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1903)
"On the other hand,» if we were to make such a statement as this, for example, " in the beginning the potter made a basin or a water-jug," the word beginning ..."

2. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1830)
"turn to his sentiments, he describes in the beginning of this book the acceptance which these their prayers met with, Jn a short allegory formed upon that ..."

3. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (1902)
"PROBLEMS in the beginning OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT IN PORTO RICO. BY DR. MG BRUMBAUGH. When the smoke of the Spanish-American War lifted from the islands of ..."

4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"in the beginning of July Wolsey, on his way to France, told him that the matter had come to the queen's ears, and that she took it very ill; ..."

5. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1903)
"On the other hand,» if we were to make such a statement as this, for example, " in the beginning the potter made a basin or a water-jug," the word beginning ..."

6. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1830)
"turn to his sentiments, he describes in the beginning of this book the acceptance which these their prayers met with, Jn a short allegory formed upon that ..."

7. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (1902)
"PROBLEMS in the beginning OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT IN PORTO RICO. BY DR. MG BRUMBAUGH. When the smoke of the Spanish-American War lifted from the islands of ..."

8. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"in the beginning of July Wolsey, on his way to France, told him that the matter had come to the queen's ears, and that she took it very ill; ..."

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