Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In due proportion, correspondence, or conformity; proportionately; suitably.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an answerable manner; in due proportion or correspondence; suitably.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In suitable proportion;
proportionately . - adverb In a corresponding manner;
correspondingly .
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Examples
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Where would the world be without bumpily, answerably, and remedially?
Archive 2010-02-01 Lauri 2010
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Where would the world be without bumpily, answerably, and remedially?
10+ Rules for Writing Fiction- kind of Lauri 2010
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But perhaps ordinary South Africans will sooner rather than later express their determination to be answerably represented.
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For there is an attractiveness in beautiful bodies, in gold and silver, and all things; and in bodily touch, sympathy hath much influence, and each other sense hath his proper object answerably tempered.
The Confessions 1999
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This is the glory, when he himself is present who is the great High Priest and the Prophet; who, answerably to the Urim and Thummim of old, reveals the counsels and will of God; he who is the true and living Temple, whom that
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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This obligation lies upon all creatures capable of knowing the Creator, answerably to that light which of him they have, and the means of revelation which they do enjoy.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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Hence are we in our hearts, minds, and souls, to admire, adore, and love him; his praises are we to celebrate; him [are we] to trust and fear, and so to resign ourselves and all our concernments unto his will and disposal; to regard him with all the acts of our minds and persons, answerably to the holy properties and excellencies of his nature.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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And this is to be understood answerably unto what we have discoursed before about his coming and his being sent.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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Of both these you have had full experience; and though your concernment in the former hath been as eminent as that of any person whatever in these later ages of the world, yet your interest in and acquaintance with the latter is, as of incomparable more importance in itself, so answerably of more value and esteem unto you.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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Thirdly, That the Spirit is grieved with the sins of believers, and their walking unworthily of, or not answerably to, the grace they have received, is clear, Eph.iv. 30: the apostle admonisheth believers to abstain from the sins he there enumerates, and consequently [from] others of the like import,
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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