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preferably
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial preferably has 1 sense
- preferably(r = adv.all) rather, sooner - more readily or willingly; "clean it well, preferably with warm water"; "I'd rather be in Philadelphia"; "I'd sooner die than give up"
CIDE DICTIONARY
preferably, adv.
In preference; by choice. [1913 Webster]
"To choose Plautus preferably to Terence."
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