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Generally vs Generall - What's the difference?

generally | generall |

As an adverb generally

is popularly or widely.

As an adjective generall is

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generally

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Adverb

(en adverb)
  • Popularly or widely.
  • As a rule; usually.
  • * 1661 , , The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
    • During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
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    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/19/2
    • , passage=Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house?; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something?; one generally , however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.}}
  • Without reference to specific details.
  • (obsolete) Collectively; as a whole; without omissions.
  • * The Holy Bible, 2 (w) xvii
    • I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee.

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  • * {{quote-book, year=1526, author=Robert Kerr, title=A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VI, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , 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= citation
    • , 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= citation
    • , 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. }}

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