Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for NEC'ES-SA-RI-LY
NEC'ES-SA-RIESNEC'ES-SA-RI-NESS
NEC'ES-SA-RI-LY, adv.
- By necessity; in such a manner, that it can not be otherwise. Truth is necessarily opposite to falsehood. A square is necessarily different from a circle.
- Indispensably. Most men are necessarily occupied in procuring their subsistence.
- By unavoidable consequence. Certain inferences necessarily result from particular premises.
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