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sec·on·dar·i·ly

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. secondarilyadverb

    of secondary import

    "secondarily affected"

Wiktionary

  1. secondarilyadverb

    With lesser importance.

    Primarily, this will cause deaths; secondarily, it will also cost a lot of money.

  2. secondarilyadverb

    In a secondary manner or degree.

  3. secondarilyadverb

    secondly; in the second place

    God hath set some in the church, first apostels, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers. uE000284886uE001 1 Cor. xii. 28.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Secondarilyadverb

    In the second degree; in the second order; not primarily; not originally; not in the first intention.

    Etymology: from secondary.

    These atoms make the wind primarily tend downwards, though other accidental causes impel them secondarily to a sloping motion. Digby.

    He confesses that temples are erected, and festivals kept, to the honour of saints, at least secondarily. Edward Stillingfleet.

    It is primarily generated out of the effusion of melancholick blood, or secondarily out of the dregs and remainder of a phlegmonous or œdematick tumour. Gideon Harvey.

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  1. secondarily

    Secondarily is an adverb that means in a secondary or less important position or role; in the second place in order or importance. It can also refer to something being a result or a byproduct of another, primary, process, situation, or event.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Secondarilyadverb

    in a secondary manner or degree

  2. Secondarilyadverb

    secondly; in the second place

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of secondarily in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of secondarily in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of secondarily in a Sentence

  1. Michael McFaul:

    I hope that he would think about first: what is our objective in Ukraine? What is our objective in Syria? And secondarily, how do I go about achieving that in my meeting with Putin?

  2. Trey Gowdy:

    Secondarily, she used the word unsolicited, megyn, when these emails are released, I want you to count the number of times she says.

  3. Albert Einstein:

    Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

  4. Lama Ahmad:

    We’re not educators ourselves – we’re very aware of that – and so our goals are really to help equip teachers to deploy these models effectively in and out of the classroom, that means giving them the language to speak about it, help them understand the capabilities and the limitations, and then secondarily through them, equip students to navigate the complexities that AI is already introducing in the world.

  5. James McCormack:

    If you look at the negative outlooks that are in place today there is a disproportionate number of them that are accounted for by emerging markets that are net exporters of commodities, regionally that leads to the Middle East and Africa and secondarily to Latin America. So that is where we expect to see continued downward pressure on ratings in 2016.

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