first and foremost

adv

Definitions

  1. Primarily

    Primarily; most importantly.

    • "There are many things to be considered before that question can be answered properly," I said, sententiously. "First and foremost, do you love Mr. Edgar?"
    • First and foremost, there is currently lacking any single text which comes close to cataloguing the great variety of terms in use.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for first and foremost. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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