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principally

adv

Etymology

From Middle English principaly. By surface analysis, principal + -ly.

  1. inherited from principaly

Definitions

  1. In a primary manner

    In a primary manner; pertaining to the principal of a matter.

    • When asked to guess whether champagnes they were drinking was made principally from white or black grapes, most tasters including wine writers and journalists were unable to tell the difference.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at principally. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at principally. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at principally

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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