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originally
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial originally has 3 senses
- originally(r = adv.all) Array - in an original manner; Array
- originally(r = adv.all) in the beginning, primitively - with reference to the origin or beginning; Array
- originally(r = adv.all) earlier, in the beginning, in the first place, to begin with - before now; "why didn't you tell me in the first place?"
CIDE DICTIONARY
originally, adv.
- In the original time, or in an original manner; primarily; from the beginning or origin; not by derivation, or imitation. [1913 Webster]"God is originally holy in himself." [1913 Webster]
- At first; at the origin; at the time of formation or costruction; as, a book originally written by another hand. Walpole. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
originally
ab initio, ab ovo, aborigine, at first, at the start, before everything, by birth, by nature, chiefly, congenitally, first, first and foremost, first thing, firstly, from the beginning, genetically, immanently, in the beginning, initially, innately, internally, intrinsically, inwardly, mainly, naturally, primally, primarily, primitively, primo, principally
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