chiefly

IPA: tʃˈifɫi

Examples of "chiefly" in Sentences

But it chiefly is a weapon against innovation, against new ideas, any ideas.
Our knowledge of oldest Arab verse is drawn chiefly from the Katáb al-Aghání
It is a term chiefly applied to ghosts; but Mr. Gum was a great deal more like a ghost than like a man.
As to critiquing stories, remember that what you are doing, chiefly, is responding to a story as a reader.
The president hailed as the most gifted communicator since Ronald Reagan has suffered chiefly from the inability to tell a convincing story.
So we see that the Greek word "chiefly" chosen by the Septuagint scholars to mean parthenos is the word bethulah, which Mr. Orbaum stresses is "the Hebrew word for virgin."
In this sense it is nearly synonymous with large j and they are often used indiscriminately, but with some difference of meaning .j for as target a term chiefly employedto detiote
That many popular historical writers used this term chiefly because it was fashionable, can also be derived from the fact that they did not attribute to it a very distinctive meaning.
The candles, pictures, images, rosary, holdy water, ringing of bells, chanting in an unknown tongue -- all these mummeries which are so conspicuous in a Catholic service interest me chiefly from the fact