Mainly vs Primally - What's the difference?
mainly | primally |
(label) Forcefully, vigorously.
* , III.i:
(label) Of the production of a sound: loudly, powerfully.
*, II.31:
(label) To a great degree; very much.
Chiefly; for the most part.
*, chapter=12
, title= in a primal manner
* 1931 , , (At the Mountains of Madness)
*:As we stepped out into the awesome half-daylight of this monstrous cylinder-bottom—fifty million years old, and without doubt the most primally ancient structure ever to meet our eyes—we saw that the ramp-traversed sides stretched dizzily up to a height of fully sixty feet.
* 1909 , (Percival Lowell), The Evolution of Worlds
*:The discrepancy is striking and cannot be explained by size, as the smallest are the most massive, and if all were primally of like constitution, should be the least compressed.
As adverbs the difference between mainly and primally
is that mainly is (label) forcefully, vigorously while primally is in a primal manner.mainly
English
Adverb
(-)- Mainly they all attonce vpon him laid, / And sore beset on euery side around.
- But in the end, mainly crying out, he fell to raling and wringing his master, upbraiding him that he was not a true Philosopher.
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.}}
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