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prin·ci·pal·ly
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Princeton's WordNet
chiefly, principally, primarily, mainly, in the mainadverb
for the most part
"he is mainly interested in butterflies"
Wiktionary
principallyadverb
In a primary manner; pertaining to the principal of a matter.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Principallyadverb
Chiefly; above all; above the rest.
Etymology: from principal.
If the minister of divine offices shall take upon him that holy calling for covetous or ambitious ends, or shall not design the glory of God principally, he polluteth his heart. Tayl.
They wholly mistake the nature of criticism, who think its business is principally to find fault. Dryden.
The resistance of water arises principally from the vis inertiæ of its matter, and by consequence, if the heavens were as dense as water, they would not have much less resistance than water. Isaac Newton, Opticks.
What I principally insist on, is due execution. Jonathan Swift.
Webster Dictionary
Principallyadverb
in a principal manner; primarily; above all; chiefly; mainly
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of principally in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of principally in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of principally in a Sentence
What we are focused on, besides the implementation of the (U.N.) Security Council resolutions, is relentlessly building pressure on North Korea, working principally with our key allies Japan and (South) Korea, we are working in various ways to cut off all the revenues going to the regime. For example, they have ... overseas workers whose remittances are not going back to their families, but are going to the regime. We’re working to cut those off.
People were focused on classical underlying conditions, like heart disease, lung disease, diabetes -- I think that was principally the mindset of my colleagues.
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.
We're going to face many challenges in the short term, and principally the equation is we have 8 billion people that need two doses of most of the vaccines, and we've only produced about a billion so far, so we do have a mismatch between the demand and the supply.
Campaign statements are made by a private citizen before he takes the oath of office and before, under the Opinions Clause of the Constitution, receives the advice of his Cabinet, and that those are constitutionally significant acts that mark the fundamental transformation from being a private citizen to the embodiment of the executive branch, but I would also say here it doesn't matter, because, here, the statements that they principally rely on don't actually address the meaning of the proclamation itself. This is not a so-called Muslim ban. If it were, it would be the most ineffective Muslim ban that one could possibly imagine since not only does it exclude the vast majority of the Muslim world, it also omits three Muslim-majority countries that were covered by past orders, including Iraq, Chad and Sudan.
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