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Definition of For the most part
1. Adverb. In large part; mainly or chiefly. "These accounts are largely inactive"
Definition of For the most part
1. Adverb. (context: focus idiomatic) mostly; in general; usually ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of For The Most Part
Literary usage of For the most part
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero by William Makepeace Thackeray (1848)
"They seem for the most part shabby in attire, dingy of linen, lovers of billiards
and brandy, and cigars and greasy ordinaries. ..."
2. The Complete Angler: Or The Contemplative Man's Recreation by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, George Washington Bethune (1847)
"... by Charles Cotton; with Copious Notes, for the most part original; a Bibliographic
Preface, giving an account of Fishing and Fishing-books, ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"These, for the most part, are through the eastern section of Massachusetts.
Most of the samples contained forms liquefying gelatin so rapidly as to make the ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... and, a» both in their private and public interest they were averse to each
olher, theii mutual conflicts contributed, for the most part, ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"The Baptists, like the Congregationalists, are grouped for the most part in
associations of churches, the majority of which belong to the Baptist Union, ..."
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