All 5 Uses
primarily
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The Screwtape Letters
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- He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily "true" of "false", but as "academic" or "practical", "outworn" or "contemporary", "conventional" or "ruthless".†
Chpt 1 *primarily = mainly
- What the Enemy means by this is primarily that he should accept with patience the tribulation which has actually been dealt out to him—the present anxiety and suspense.†
Chpt 6
- The attitude which you want to guard against is that in which temporal affairs are treated primarily as material for obedience.†
Chpt 7
- To us a human is primarily good; our aim is the absorption of its will into ours, the increase of our own area of selfhood at its expense.†
Chpt 8
- I am not thinking primarily of indecent or bawdy humour, which, though much relied upon by second-rate tempters, is often disappointing in its results.†
Chpt 11
Definitions:
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(1)
(primarily) mainly (most importantly)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)