Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In many different ways; multifariously; variously.
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- adverb In many different ways;
variously .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Golden Knight was slower and more staid, but in manywise he showed his war-deftness, riding after
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The Golden Knight was slower and more staid, but in manywise he showed his war-deftness, riding after Hugh as if he would fall on him, and staying his way just as it became perilous; and he cried, Baudoin, Baudoin, for Gold-sleeves!
The Water of the Wondrous Isles William Morris 1865
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1 It is little which thou sufferest in comparison with those who have suffered so many things, have been so strongly tempted, so grievously troubled, so manywise proved and tried.
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"Well, my lad," quoth the warrior smiling, for now after his talk with the goodman he was in better humour, "when thou growest older thou wilt find that saw of thine belied manywise, and that many there be who are not loth to be thralls.
The Sundering Flood William Morris 1865
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