All 3 Uses
external
in
A Sketch of the Past
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- But of course there was one external reason for the intensity of this first impression: the impression of the waves and the acorn on the blind; the feeling, as I describe it sometimes to myself, of lying in a grape and seeing through a film of semi-transparent yellow—it was due partly to the many months we spent in London.†
external = outside
- Looking back, then, at Kensington Gardens, though I can recover incidents, many more than I have patience to describe, I cannot recover, save by fits and starts, the focus, the proportions of the external world.†
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- Externally I remember the discovery that he looked astonishingly handsome, in his new J. Hills suit of blue serge.†
externally = relating to the outside
Definitions:
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(1)
(external) outsidein various senses, including:
- coming from or existing outside a place, organization or thing -- as in "external trade"
- forming or relating to an outside boundary -- as in "external walls"
- on the surface or superficial as contrasted to something that is deep or complete -- as in "external appearances"
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)