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Preferably   /prˈɛfərəbli/  /prˈɛfrəbli/   Listen
Preferably

adverb
1.
More readily or willingly.  Synonyms: rather, sooner.  "I'd rather be in Philadelphia" , "I'd sooner die than give up"






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"Preferably" Quotes from Famous Books



... Pick one man, preferably the weaker of your opponents, and centre your attack on him and keep it there. Pound him unmercifully, and in time he should crack under the attack. It is very foolish to alternate attack, since it simply puts both men on ...
— The Art of Lawn Tennis • William T. Tilden, 2D

... wives and children who had been left in Herrnhut, and suggested the advisability of establishing an English School for them, that they might be better fitted for life in Georgia. Oglethorpe liked the idea, and, after due consideration, suggested that some one in Herrnhut who spoke French or Latin, preferably the latter, should be named as Count Zinzendorf's Agent, to handle funds for the English school, and to accompany later companies of Georgia colonists as far as London, his expenses to be paid by the Trustees. Of this the Trustees approved, and donated 40 Pounds sterling, ...
— The Moravians in Georgia - 1735-1740 • Adelaide L. Fries

... boiler, or preferably a chafing dish, avoiding aluminum and other soft metals. Heat the upper pan by simmering water in the lower one, but don't let the water boil up or ...
— The Complete Book of Cheese • Robert Carlton Brown

... continually mob it in broad daylight. This behaviour on the part of its pertinacious little neighbours has been the occasion of much futile speculation; but the one certain result of such persecution is to make the cuckoo, along with its fellow-sufferer, the owls, preferably active in the sweet peace of the gloaming, when its puny tyrants are gone to roost. Much heated argument has raged round the real or supposed sentiment that inspires such demonstrations on the part of linnets, sparrows, chaffinches, and other ...
— Birds in the Calendar • Frederick G. Aflalo

... any other member of the Society. Even when travelling with the court he was obliged to sleep in a house of his Order, or if passing through a town where no such house existed, he must beg hospitality of any other religious community, preferably to passing ...
— Studies from Court and Cloister • J.M. Stone


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