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Definition of Penultimately
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Penultimately
Literary usage of Penultimately
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Educational Research by American Educational Research Association (1921)
"The conclusion is penultimately stated on p. 169—the "even-bet" phrase tempts me
to say "ante-penultimately." It is: "Whatever may be the desirable outcomes ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1882)
"penultimately (and unfortunately for poetical metaphor), its song swells as it
rises and sinks as it falls, while the open sky is by no means essential for ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1852)
"There is not one liberal man out of ten thousand, and he is only penultimately
generous. He was indeed poor. Educated according to the straitest sect a ..."
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