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Widely   /wˈaɪdli/   Listen
Widely

adverb
1.
To a great degree.
2.
To or over a great extent or range; far.  Synonym: wide.  "He traveled widely"
3.
So as to leave much space or distance between.



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"Widely" Quotes from Famous Books



... of that day were probably quite as ready to condemn them as the Church was. To realize the position we must think of some subjects which to-day are scientifically heterodox, and of the customary attitude adopted toward them by persons of widely differing creeds. ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 • Various

... open to the colonists consisted of two contiguous regions, separated from each other by no mountains or rivers, but widely differing from each other in many respects. The one, comprising all the northern part of Eastern Europe and of Asia, even unto Kamchatka, may be roughly described as a land of forests, intersected by many rivers, and containing numerous lakes and marshes; the other, stretching ...
— Russia • Donald Mackenzie Wallace

... when stored without special care or precaution. Its manipulation is extremely simple, and closely resembles the development of a negative. It does not require a special sort of negative, but is adapted to give good prints from negatives widely different in quality. It is obtainable in any desired size, and with a great variety of surfaces, from extreme gloss to that of rough drawing paper. It offers great latitude in exposure and development, and yields, even in the hands of the novice, ...
— Bromide Printing and Enlarging • John A. Tennant

... spiritual world. Furthermore, everyone knows how far the sight of the eye extends, namely, to the sun and to the stars, which are so remote; and whoever thinks deeply knows that the internal sight, which is of thought, has a still wider extension, and that a yet more interior sight must extend more widely still. What then must be said of Divine sight, which is the inmost and highest of all? Because thoughts have such extension, all things of heaven are shared with everyone there, so, too, are all things of the Divine which makes heaven and fills it, as ...
— Heaven and its Wonders and Hell • Emanuel Swedenborg

... said, opening her eyes widely; "who am I that I should judge you? However bad you may ...
— Colonel Quaritch, V.C. - A Tale of Country Life • H. Rider Haggard


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