Gradual vs Repaid - What's the difference?
gradual | repaid |
Proceeding by steps or small degrees; advancing step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow.
* Milton
(Roman Catholic Church) An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps.
(Roman Catholic Church) A service book containing the musical portions of the Mass.
As an adjective gradual
is proceeding by steps or small degrees; advancing step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow.As a noun gradual
is (roman catholic church) an antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps.As a verb repaid is
(repay).gradual
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Alternative forms
* graduall (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- a gradual''' increase of knowledge; a '''gradual decline
- Creatures animate with gradual life / Of growth, sense, reason, all summed up in man.