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adverb

Generally adv.

In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently.

In a general way, or in general relation; in the main; upon the whole; comprehensively. "Generally speaking, they live very quietly."

Collectively; as a whole; without omissions. (Obs.) "I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee."

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... patent expired in 1893. This opened the telephone art to the general public, because it no longer was necessary to secure telephones solely from the patent-holding company nor to pay royalty for the right to use them, if secured at all. Manufacturers of electrical apparatus generally then began to make and sell telephones and telephone apparatus, and operating companies, also independent of the Bell organization, began to install and use telephones. At the end of seventeen years of patent monopoly in the United States, there were in operation a little over 250,000 ...

— Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 - A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. • Kempster Miller

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... to write out his 'composition,' and had set down as much of it as is printed here, when 'he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock,' whose departure, an hour after, left him wellnigh oblivious of the rest. This confession, which is dated 1816, has been generally accepted as true; but Coleridge had a trick of dreaming dreams about himself which ...

— Lyra Heroica - A Book of Verse for Boys • Various

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... for your comforting letter. When I am fairly committed to anything I generally have a cold fit—and your judgment that I have done right is "grateful and comforting" like Epps' Cocoa. It is not so much work as distraction that is involved; and though it may put a stop to my purely scientific work for a while, I don't know that I could be better ...

— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 2 • Leonard Huxley

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... know best. I generally make a mess of it when I disobey you. But concealments are bad things too. We used to go with our bosoms ...

— Hard Cash • Charles Reade

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... answered, as he got up from the step and started for the big loft where he slept with the mountaineer's two sons, "but, even if I don't get a chance, I've learned a lot from you about the folk on the mountains and about the South generally." ...

— The Boy With the U.S. Census • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

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