subordinately

Example Sentences

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Her sample drawings were clipped, rather subordinately, to her photograph.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

For a name applied to many things is analogical if what it signifies is realized par excellence in one, and in the others only subordinately and dependently on that.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

Now every act, every scene, should have, subordinately, its exposition, its plot, and its unravelment, just as the total of the piece has, of which they are the parts.

From A Treatise on the Art of Dancing by Gallini, Giovanni-Andrea

The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

But the conceptual method is a transformation which the flux of life undergoes at our hands in the interests of practice essentially and only subordinately in the interests of theory.

From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by James, William