gradually

Definitions

1. In a gradual manner; making slow progress; slowly.
2. by degrees
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“The most likely conclusion, the researchers say⟳, is that the Levallois method was not taken to Eurasia by African migrants, but evolved there gradually and independently.”

“The instrument of this dumbing down in Nineteen Eighty-Four was Newspeak, the official language of the English Socialist Party (Ingsoc). Newspeak was a sort⟳ of Totalitarian Esperanto that sought gradually to diminish the range of what was thinkable by eliminating, contracting and manufacturing words.”

“Horns, upon the due accession of Moisture, doth gradually become⟳ Soft.”

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