Chiefly

That many popular historical writers used this term chiefly because it was fashionable, can also be derived from the fact that they did not attribute to it a very distinctive meaning. ❋ FELIX GILBERT (1968)

It is a term chiefly applied to ghosts; but Mr. Gum was a great deal more like a ghost than like a man. ❋ Henry Wood (1850)

In this sense it is nearly synonymous with large j and they are often used indiscriminately, but with some difference of meaning .j for as target a term chiefly employedto detiote ❋ Unknown (1792)

So we see that the Greek word "chiefly" chosen by the Septuagint scholars to mean parthenos is the word bethulah, which Mr. Orbaum stresses is "the Hebrew word for virgin." ❋ Unknown (1991)

The president hailed as the most gifted communicator since Ronald Reagan has suffered chiefly from the inability to tell a convincing story. ❋ Jonathan Freedland (2010)

As to critiquing stories, remember that what you are doing, chiefly, is responding to a story as a reader. ❋ Jmeadows (2009)

The candles, pictures, images, rosary, holdy water, ringing of bells, chanting in an unknown tongue -- all these mummeries which are so conspicuous in a Catholic service interest me chiefly from the fact ❋ Unknown (2008)

But it chiefly is a weapon against innovation, against new ideas, any ideas. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Our knowledge of oldest Arab verse is drawn chiefly from the Katáb al-Aghání ❋ Unknown (2006)

The coin chiefly used at market is a piece of copper silvered, that passes for seven sols and a half; another of the same sort, valued two sols and a half. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Her library was composed of the best English historians, poets, and philosophers; of all the French critics and poets, and of a few books in Italian, chiefly poetry, at the head of which were Tasso and Ariosto, pretty much used. ❋ Unknown (2004)

It is true a vast many people fled, as I have observed, yet they were chiefly from the west end of the town, and from that we call the heart of the city: that is to say, among the wealthiest of the people, and such people as were unencumbered with trades and business. ❋ Unknown (2002)

They are a mixed race-descendants of Malayans, who were introduced as slaves chiefly from the Dutch East Indies, and remnants of the Hottentot tribes that were wiped out by an epidemic of smallpox in 1713, with some admixture of Bantu and European blood. ❋ Unknown (1960)

What the Speaker wants from the Clerk chiefly is the benefit of his experience-so much longer than his own. ❋ Unknown (1952)

So far as we have been studying character defects arising chiefly from a too dominant personality. ❋ Unknown (1948)

Discovery and Conquest of America, chiefly from the Spanish Archives_. ❋ Various (N/A)

Whistler's works, already mentioned, chiefly from the National Gallery, ❋ Ben Macomber (N/A)

= Songs, chiefly from the German =. 16mo, gilt top, $1.25. ❋ J. L. Spalding (N/A)

_ Cadenced prose is in English chiefly an historical phenomenon of the seventeenth century. ❋ Paull Franklin Baum (N/A)

[The chief] should be doing his [chiefly] [duties]... ❋ MRTE (2023)