Definition of Chiefly

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Definition of Chiefly
	Chiefly In the first place; principally; preeminently; above; especially. For the most part; mostly. Related Definitions: Above, Especially, First, For, In, Most, Mostly, Part, Place, Preeminently, Principally, The

Chiefly Quotations

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
Marilyn Monroe

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
Henry David Thoreau

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Aristotle

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan Poe

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
Henry Ward Beecher

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
John Maynard Keynes

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
Ambrose Bierce

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Chiefly Translations

chiefly in Afrikaans is hoofsaaklik, veral
chiefly in Dutch is inzonderheid
chiefly in Finnish is etenkin
chiefly in French is principalement
chiefly in Italian is principalmente, in prima linea
chiefly in Latin is precipue, praecipue, presertim praesertim
chiefly in Portuguese is principalmente
chiefly in Spanish is sobretodo, principalmente
chiefly in Swedish is huvudsakligen

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