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Definition of Gradatim
1. step-by-step [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gradatim
Literary usage of Gradatim
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Stepping Stones to Literature: A Reader for Seventh Grades by Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert (1898)
"gradatim.1 By Josiah Gilbert Holland.* (1819-1881.) HEAVEN is not reached by a
single bound, But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth ..."
2. The Little Book of American Poets, 1787-1900 by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1915)
"gradatim HEAVEN is not reached at a single bound; But we build the ladder by
which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies ..."
3. School Reading by Grades: First[-eighth] Year by James Baldwin (1897)
"... gradatim. Heaven is not reached at a single bound, But we build the ladder by
which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to ..."
4. Golden Poems by British and American Authors by Francis Fisher Browne (1906)
"gradatim SIR HENRY WOTTON. HEAVEN is not reached at a single bound ; But we build
the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, ..."
5. The Complete Poetical Writings of J. G. Holland by Josiah Gilbert Holland (1900)
"gradatim. HEAVEN is not reached at a single bound; But we build the ladder by
which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its ..."
6. The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1918 by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1918)
"... gradatim HEAVEN is not reached at a single bound; But we build the ladder by
which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, ..."
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