Adverb

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(label) Forcefully, vigorously.

* , III.i:

Mainly they all attonce vpon him laid, / And sore beset on euery side around.

(label) Of the production of a sound: loudly, powerfully.

*, II.31:

But in the end, mainly crying out, he fell to raling and wringing his master, upbraiding him that he was not a true Philosopher.

(label) To a great degree; very much.

Chiefly; for the most part.

*, chapter=12

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=She had Lord James' collar in one big fist and she pounded the table with the other and talked a blue streak. Nobody could make out plain what she said, for she was mainly jabbering Swede lingo, but there was English enough, of a kind, to give us some idee.}}

Adverb

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Alone; exclusively.

The new chef was solely responsible for attending the grill.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 20, author=Nina Bernstein, title=Storm Bared a Lack of Options for the Homeless in New York, work=New York Times citation

, passage=This week, officials closed all evacuation centers but two on Staten Island. Now they plan to rely solely on hotels, even as they brace for a new wave of people displaced from storm-damaged housing where they are facing winter without heat or hot water.}}