Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Of necessity; inevitably.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a necessary manner; by necessity; so that it cannot be otherwise; inevitably.
Wiktionary
- adv. inevitably; of necessity
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a necessary manner; by necessity; unavoidably; indispensably.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in such a manner as could not be otherwise
- adv. as a highly likely consequence
- adv. in an essential manner
Etymologies
- necessary + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“If, on the first murder I see, I do not exclaim that this murder had necessarily a cause, at the thousandth murder, although it shall be proved that all the others had causes, I shall have the right to think that this murder has, very probably, also a cause, but I shall never have the right to say that it _necessarily_ had a cause.”
“Bodies, was peculiar to him above all other kinds of Animals whatever; he perceiv'd that it was a Duty necessarily incumbent upon him to resemble them, and imitate their Actions, and endeavour to the utmost to become like them: He perceiv'd also that in respect: of his nobler Part, by which he had attain'd the Knowledge of that _necessarily self existent Being_, he did in some measure resemble it, because he was separated from the Attributes of Bodies, as the _necessarily self-existent Being_ is separated from them.”
The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan
“The term necessarily is in this instance certainly misapplied.”
“It'll end up being - I don't like the term necessarily - a boutique stadium, which footy needs.”
“But if you thought organic on the label necessarily means organic in the bottle, then think again.”
“An Alzheimer's rage, I don't know if there's such a term necessarily, but you know, people who have sort of this onset of dementia, I would have expected him to have more symptoms earlier than this, you know, forgetfulness, problems profound looking at the brain.”
“BRYANT: But I don ` t think recognition of name necessarily translates to ticket sales.”
“For in the former case the one term necessarily does not belong to the other; in the latter there is no necessity that it should: and the premiss converts like other negative statements.”
“The three states or stages, which he describes as necessarily _successive_, are, in point of fact, _simultaneous_.”
Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
“The court said, "the First Amendment guarantees 'freedom of speech,' a term necessarily comprising the decision of both what to say and what not to say.”
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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