severally

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English

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Etymology

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From several +‎ -ly.

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Adverb

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severally (not comparable)

  1. separately
    • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 85, column 1:
      I will diſpatch you ſeuerally. You to Lord Lucius, to Lord Lucullus you, I hunted with his Honor to-day; [...]
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, [] (King James Version), London: [] Robert Barker, [], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 12:8–11:
      For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: but all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
    • 1912, James Stephens, The Crock of Gold[1], New York: MacMillan, published 1926, Book V, p. 229:
      The policemen severally presented him with a pipe, a tin of tobacco, two boxes of matches and a dictionary, and then they withdrew leaving him to his own devices.
    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter X, in Capricornia[2], New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 162:
      As it was, they were unable to discuss the details severally as they would have done had murder not become thus wholesale.
  2. (Africa) Several times, repeatedly
    • 2012 November 12, Business Daily[3], Kenya, archived from the original on 18 November 2012:
      It tells them that those rules can be broken; and certainly they will break them, not once or twice but severally.
    • 2016 April 29, Nigeria Today:
      It was at the point of confronting Alaba, who had been warned severally along with other tenants, that Ogunyemi met her demise.

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