stepmeal

Definitions

One step at a time; step by step; gradually; by degrees.

not-comparable, uncommon

Examples

“He who would see⟳ it with his mind's eye must begin⟳ by very little, and then by little and little climb⟳ nigher and nigher, and stepmeal, as if he were climbing on a ladder, and would be up on some sea'cliff; […]”

“One does not need⟳ to underline how, stepmeal (SIC), all this imitates Communist practice. This would be damaging enough. But the new rightist government has gone much further. It has laid strict control⟳ on the Greek Orthodox Church.”

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