Meaning of in the main | Babel Free

Definitions

Principally; on the whole; for the most part.

Examples

“[…] I entirely agree with you in the main as to the propriety of doing everything one could by way of providing for a child one had in a manner taken into one's own hands; […]”

“Mr. Fechter has been in the main more accustomed to speak French than to speak English.”

“A new generation is growing up in our midst, […] and its enthusiasm, even when it is misdirected, is, I believe, in the main sincere.”

“Bill Clinton's philandering was regarded as a moral failing or a joke — but not, in the main, as an illness.”

“Now, I hold no candle for the train operators, and I think that in the main they have been far too craven about any government proposals. But in this instance, they have been badly traduced, led up the hill, and then chucked back down it.”

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