Adverb

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Mainly or chiefly; for the most part; usually, generally, on the whole.

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(obsolete) To the greatest extent; most.

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She was to be their chosen visitor, she was to be for weeks under the same roof with the person whose society she mostly prized [...]!

Adverb

(en adverb)

(lb) In a special manner; specially.

(lb) Particularly; to a greater extent than is normal.

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*:There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (and evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers.

(lb) (Used to place greater emphasis upon someone or something).

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*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.

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*:There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (and evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers.