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Word Meanings - GRADUALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. In a gradual manner. 2. In degree. Human reason doth not only gradually, but specifically, differ from the fantastic reason of brutes. Grew.

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  • HUMANIZE
    To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph. (more info) 1. To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize. Was it the business
  • DIFFERENTIALLY
    In the way of differentiation.
  • HUMANIFY
    To make human; to invest with a human personality; to incarnate. The humanifying of the divine Word. H. B. Wilson.
  • FANTASTIC
    1. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical. 2. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. Shak. 3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic
  • REASONING
    1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay.
  • FANTASTICALITY
    Fantastically.
  • SPECIFICALLY
    In a specific manner.
  • DIFFERENTLY
    In a different manner; variously.
  • REASONLESS
    1. Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind. Shak. 2. Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak.
  • HUMANITARIANISM
    The distinctive tenet of the humanitarians in denying the divinity of Christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of Christ.
  • REASONABLY
    1. In a reasonable manner. 2. Moderately; tolerably. "Reasonably perfect in the language." Holder.
  • HUMANISM
    1. Human nature or disposition; humanity. looked almost like a being who had rejected with indifference the attitude of sex for the loftier quality of abstract humanism. T. Hardy. 2. The study of the humanities; polite learning.
  • HUMANISTIC
    1. Of or pertaining to humanity; as, humanistic devotion. Caird. 2. Pertaining to polite kiterature. M. Arnold.
  • DIFFERENT
    1. Distinct; separate; not the same; other. "Five different churches." Addison. 2. Of various or contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally unlike; dissimilar; as, different kinds of food or drink; different states of health; different
  • GRADUAL
    Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as, a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline. Creatures animate with gradual life Of growth, sense,
  • FANTASTICLY
    Fantastically.
  • HUMANITY
    The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters. Note: The cultivation of the languages, literature, history, and archæology of Greece and Rome, were very commonly called literæ
  • HUMANIST
    1. One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title. Schaff- Herzog. 2. One who purposes the study
  • HUMANKIND
    Mankind. Pope.
  • FANTASTICISM
    The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality. Ruskin.
  • INHUMANITY
    The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.
  • INDIFFERENCY
    Absence of interest in, or influence from, anything; unconcernedness; equilibrium; indifferentism; indifference. Gladstone. To give ourselves to a detestable indifferency or neutrality in this cause. Fuller. Moral liberty . . . does not, after all,
  • UNMANNERLY
    Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
  • INDIFFERENTLY
    In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably. That they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to
  • UNREASONABLE
    Not reasonable; irrational; immoderate; exorbitant. -- Un*rea"son*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*rea"son*a*bly, adv.

 

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