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Definition of Broadly speaking
1. Adverb. Without regard to specific details or exceptions. "He interprets the law broadly"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Broadly Speaking
Literary usage of Broadly speaking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"broadly speaking, be deemed a strict-constructionist position, and the right to
issue paper money an implication of liberal construction. ..."
2. The Development of European Polity by Henry Sidgwick (1903)
"... Germany as compared with France and Spain—to keep in view that the different
lines not only come round, broadly speaking, to the same result of absolute ..."
3. Buddhism and Immortality by William Sturgis Bigelow (1908)
"This conflict of the centripetal and centrifugal forces, of which the so- called
self is the centre, is the basis of morality. broadly speaking, what is ..."