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alternatively
English
Etymology
alternative +? -ly
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?l.?t??(?).n?.t?v.li/
- (US) IPA(key): /?l.?t?.n?.t?v.li/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /?l.?t?.n?.t?v.li/
Adverb
alternatively (not comparable)
- in an alternative way
- 2001, Hans-Peter Martin, Is Globalization a Trap?, published in Keys to the 21st Century (edited by Jérôme Bindé) on page 350:
- Thus, we are creating a new class struggle between those who live within the social system and those who are marginalized or wish to live alternatively.
- 2003, Torunn Kjølner and Janek Szatkowski, Dramaturgy in Building Multimedia Performances, published in Production methods: behind the scenes of virtual inhabited 3D worlds: Volume 1 (edited by Kim Halskov Madsen), on page 127:
- Devising obviously asks for what we understand as general creativity, like the ability to take an initiative, to invent, to think alternatively, to associate interestingly, to create metaphors and images.
- 2001, Hans-Peter Martin, Is Globalization a Trap?, published in Keys to the 21st Century (edited by Jérôme Bindé) on page 350:
- (conjunctive) Used to link a pair of possibilities
Usage notes
- See alternate and alternately.
Translations
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willingly
English
Etymology
From Middle English willyngly, wyllyngly (“intentionally, deliverately; freely, gladly”), from Old English willendl??e (“diligently”), equivalent to willing +? -ly.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?w?l??li/
- Hyphenation: will?ing?ly
Adverb
willingly (comparative more willingly, superlative most willingly)
- Of one’s own free will; freely and spontaneously.
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 29.
- Now this is a process of the mind or thought, of which I would willingly know the foundation.
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 29.
Synonyms
- gladly, happily
Translations
willingly From the web:
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- what willingly means in spanish
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- what is willingly
- what does willingly mean in the bible
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