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severely

adv

Etymology

From severe + -ly.

  1. derived from severus — “severe, serious, grave in demeanor”
  2. formed as severely — “severe + -ly”

Definitions

  1. In a severe manner.

    • After the first day they left her severely alone, their plea to their husbands, her uncompromising independence.
    • Meanwhile the Christian Church from these speculations has kept itself severely apart - as of course representing a unique and divine revelation little concerned or interested in such heathenisms[.]
    • Regular freight trains between Abergavenny and Merthyr were withdrawn on November 24, 1954, because it was found both practicable and more economical to send this traffic by less severely-graded routes.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

7 hops · closes at severely

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

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