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[ adverb ] in an original manner
Used in print (The New York Times,...)Joe naturally ruled that a ball be dropped from alongside the spot where it had originally entered the stream . (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)If , on_the_other_hand , they opted_for representation , it had to be representation per_se - representation as image pure_and_simple , without connotations ( at_least , without more than schematic ones ) of the three-dimensional space in which the objects represented originally existed . (W. E. B. DuBois, Worlds of Color....)First_of_all there was the parsonage , an utterly impossible place for civilized people to live_in , originally poorly conceived , apparently not repaired for years , with no plumbing or sewage , with rat-holes and rot . |
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[ adverb ] with reference to the origin or beginning
Synonyms Used in print (Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)Man 's life , originally shaped for immortality and for communion with God , must now be conformed_to the shape of death . |
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[ adverb ] before now
Examples "why didn't you tell me in the first place?" |
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