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.

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Adverb

(en adverb)

Almost but not quite.

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Without exaggeration.

In essence, but not in fact.

(algebra) Of a substructure of finite index.

(topology) Of a covering space of finite index.