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[ adverb ] in a dim indistinct manner
Synonyms Examples "we perceived the change only dimly" Used in print (Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)What we have seen in this chapter , we have seen only dimly , and yet the results , however general , are worth the search . (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)Had More 's writings been wholly limited to such exercises , they would be almost as dimly remembered as those of a dozen or_so other authors living in his time , whose works tenuously survive in the minds of the few hundred scholars who each decade in pursuit of their very specialized occasions read those works . (David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court....)He saw only dimly moving figures , but when he slashed them they yelled and fled . Related terms |
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