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Definition of Gradually
1. Adverb. In a gradual manner. "The snake moved gradually toward its victim"
Definition of Gradually
1. adv. In a gradual manner.
Definition of Gradually
1. Adverb. In a gradual manner; making slow progress; slowly. ¹
2. Adverb. (obsolete) by degrees ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gradually
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gradually
Literary usage of Gradually
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"As the objects of religion were gradually reduced to the standard of the imagination,
the rites and ceremonies were introduced that seemed most powerfully ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"It remains to answer the final question:—What is the Aristotelian philosophy,
which its author gradually formed with so much labour? ..."
3. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative by Richard Henry Dana (1895)
"We left the land gradually astern; and at sundown had the Atlantic Ocean clear
before us. CHAPTER XXXIII. IT is usual, in voyages round the Cape from the ..."
4. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Thomas, Edward Bouverie Pusey, William Benham (1909)
"THE SEVENTH BOOK Augustine's thirty-first year; gradually extricated from his
errors, but still with material conceptions of God; ..."
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