gradatim
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of gradatim
Borrowed into English from Latin around 1575–85
Example Sentences
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Animo in studia severiora converso, fibre gradatim laxabantur.
From Travels through France and Italy by Smollett, T. (Tobias)
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 Richardson, Samuel
Rex igitur filii sui prosperitate gauisus, qui eciam diatim de bono in melius gradatim ascendit, aliquo tempore uite sue metas distulit naturales: iubilus quoque in corde senis conceptus languores seniles plurimum mitigauit.
From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.
Sumus tamen solito rariores, quod initium est gradatim desinendi.
From A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements by Tacitus, Cornelius
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 Richardson, Samuel
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