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firstly
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial firstly has 1 sense
- firstly(r = adv.all) first, first of all, first off, foremost - before anything else; "first we must consider the garter snake"
CIDE DICTIONARY
firstly, adv.
In the first place; before anything else; -- sometimes improperly used for first. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
firstly, adv. (in enumerating topics, arguments, etc.) in the first place, first (cf. FIRST adv.).
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