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principally

adverb C1
  1. In a primary manner; pertaining to the principal of a matter.
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Hurst, principally occupied in playing with her bracelets and rings, joined now and then in her brother’s conversation with Miss Bennet.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 59 · B2
Bingley does not know the whole of his history, and is quite ignorant of the circumstances which have principally offended Mr.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 108 · B2
Two inferences, however, were plainly deduced from the whole: one, that Elizabeth was the real cause of all the mischief; and the other, that she herself had been barbarously used by them all; and on these two points she principally dwelt during the rest of the day.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 148 · B2
Now and again cases came in my way, principally through the introduction of old fellow-students, for during my last years at the University there was a good deal of talk there about myself and my methods.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 5 · B2

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