Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: severally
IPA transcription: [s'ɛvɹəli]
Pronunciations of severally
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r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: respectively, severally
    Meaning: in the order given; "the brothers were called Felix and Max, respectively"
  • Synonyms: individually, separately, singly, severally, one_by_one, on_an_individual_basis
    Meaning: apart from others; "taken individually, the rooms were, in fact, square"; "the fine points are treated singly"
  • Synonyms: independently, severally
    Meaning: apart from others; "the clothes were hung severally"
Usage examples
  • Having gone thus far, the two old gentlemen severally took snuff, and afterwards shook hands, according to their invariable custom.
  • They would have run away severally had they dared; but fear kept them together, and kept them close by John, as if his daring helped them.
  • Now these ten cohorts had severally a thousand footmen, but the other thirteen cohorts had no more than six hundred footmen apiece, with a hundred and twenty horsemen.
  • For in this way the God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods by whom they are severally possessed.
  • Thus it is easier to account for falsehood if we take judgement to be a relation in which the mind and the various objects concerned all occur severally; that is to say, Desdemona and loving and Cassio must all be terms in the relation which subsists when Othello believes that Desdemona loves Cassio.
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