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ordinance |
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ordinarily
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial ordinarily has 1 sense
- ordinarily(r = adv.all) commonly, normally, unremarkably, usually - under normal conditions; "usually she was late"
CIDE DICTIONARY
ordinarily, adv.
According to established rules or settled method; as a rule; commonly; usually; in most cases; as, a winter more than ordinarily severe. [1913 Webster]
"Those who ordinarily pride themselves not a little upon their penetration."
[1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
ordinarily
again and again, all in all, all things considered, altogether, as a rule, as a whole, as an approximation, as per usual, as things go, as usual, at large, broadly, broadly speaking, by and large, chiefly, commonly, commonplacely, customarily, frequently, generally, generally speaking, habitually, in general, in many instances, mainly, many a time, many times, matter-of-factly, most often, mostly, naturally, normally, normatively, not infrequently, not seldom, oft, often, often enough, oftentimes, ofttimes, on balance, on the whole, overall, plainly, predominantly, prescriptively, prevailingly, prosaically, regularly, repeatedly, roughly, roughly speaking, routinely, simply, speaking generally, to be expected, typically, unseldom, usually, whenever you wish
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