Usual vs Generall - What's the difference?
usual | generall |
most commonly occurring
* {{quote-book, year=1526, author=Robert Kerr, title=A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VI, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Moreover it seemeth that Gonzalvo de Oviedo, a famous Spanish writer, alludeth unto the sayde voyage in the beginning of the 13. chapter of the 19. booke of his generall and natural historie of the West Indies, agreeing very well with the time about which Richard Eden writeth that the foresayd voyage was begun. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1560, author=Peter Whitehorne, title=Machiavelli, Volume I, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Centurions, and l. peticapitaines: I would then apoinet a generall hed, over all the main battaile: I would that every Conestable should have an Ansigne, and a Drum. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1581, author=Anonymous, title=A Treatise Of Daunses, chapter=, edition=
, passage=And because it is so, S. Peter in his first canonicall or generall epistle, forbiddeth that women should appeare, shew, and sett out themselues by theyr apparayle and neatnes. }}
As adjectives the difference between usual and generall
is that usual is most commonly occurring while generall is .usual
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The preference of a boy to a girl is a usual occurrence in some parts of China.
- It is becoming more usual these days to rear children as bilingual.
Synonyms
* common, wonted, normal, standard, regular, ordinary, plain, simpleAntonyms
* unusualDerived terms
* usualness * usually * unusual * as usualExternal links
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* 1000 English basic words ----generall
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