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Definition of In the first place

1. Adverb. Before now. "Why didn't you tell me in the first place?"

2. Adverb. Of primary import. "It was in the first place a local matter"

Definition of In the first place

1. Adverb. (context: sequence idiomatic) To begin with; earlier; first; at the start. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of In The First Place

in the cards in the clear in the crosshairs in the dark in the dock in the doghouse in the driver's seat in the dumps in the end in the eyes of

in the face of in the family way in the fast lane in the final analysis in the first place (current term) in the flesh in the flesh(p) in the future in the game in the gristle

in the groove in the head in the here and now in the hopper in the hospital in the hot seat in the know in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king in the last analysis

Literary usage of In the first place

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The Parnassian poetry is characterized, in the first place, ... In the first place he does not admit the propriety of a writer's putting himself into his ..."

2. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1830)
"in the first place, let them consider well what are the characters which they bear among their enemies. Our friends very often flatter us, as much as our ..."

3. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"The subject may stand in the first place with the verb in the second place: Der Vater liebt den Sohn. This form is called normal order. ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"It was an epistle to the Gentile converts, as such, in the first place of Laodicea, in the second place of ..."

5. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"in the first place, this is the only monument of the kind which we find directly named in an But, perhaps, the most curious circumstance of all connected ..."

6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The Parnassian poetry is characterized, in the first place, ... In the first place he does not admit the propriety of a writer's putting himself into his ..."

7. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1830)
"in the first place, let them consider well what are the characters which they bear among their enemies. Our friends very often flatter us, as much as our ..."

8. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"The subject may stand in the first place with the verb in the second place: Der Vater liebt den Sohn. This form is called normal order. ..."

9. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"It was an epistle to the Gentile converts, as such, in the first place of Laodicea, in the second place of ..."

10. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"in the first place, this is the only monument of the kind which we find directly named in an But, perhaps, the most curious circumstance of all connected ..."

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