gradatim
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of gradatim
Borrowed into English from Latin around 1575–85
Example Sentences
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Step by Step, Difficulties varied and enumerated, that young Creatures may know, that tho' they may not have all her Trials, how to comport gradatim.
From Clarissa: Preface, Hints of Prefaces, and Postscript by Samuel Richardson
Ad summos Martis dignitates gradatim assurgens, Gloriæ nobilis metæ appetens, In medio cursu, improvisa lethi vi raptus, 28 Septemb.
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. by Mrs. Thomson
Plain words, I said, in these cases, were more shocking to their sex than gradatim actions.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Samuel Richardson
Her nurse Norton boasts of her maternal offices in her earliest infancy; and in her education gradatim.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Samuel Richardson
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