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English
Etymology
From several + -ly.
Pronunciation
Adverb
severally (not comparable)
- separately
c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 85, column 1:I will diſpatch you ſeuerally. You to Lord Lucius, to Lord Lucullus you, I hunted with his Honor to-day; [...]
1611, The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 12:8–11:For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: but all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
1912, James Stephens, The Crock of Gold, New York: MacMillan, published 1926, Book V, p. 229:The policemen severally presented him with a pipe, a tin of tobacco, two boxes of matches and a dictionary, and then they withdrew leaving him to his own devices.
1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter X, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 162:As it was, they were unable to discuss the details severally as they would have done had murder not become thus wholesale.
- (Africa) Several times, repeatedly
2012 November 12, Business Daily, Kenya, archived from the original on 18 November 2012:It tells them that those rules can be broken; and certainly they will break them, not once or twice but severally.
2016 April 29, Nigeria Today:It was at the point of confronting Alaba, who had been warned severally along with other tenants, that Ogunyemi met her demise.
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