Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Proceeding as a natural consequence; following naturally as a thing to be expected or about which there can be no question.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective expected or depended upon as a natural or logical outcome
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Examples
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Maybe the mayor-elect wrote this way because he actually sees this thing, this election of these two women, this way: just a matter-of-course.
Rebecca Sive: With Apologies to Beyonce: Chicago Women "Run This Motha" This Inauguration Day Rebecca Sive 2011
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Maybe the mayor-elect wrote this way because he actually sees this thing, this election of these two women, this way: just a matter-of-course.
Rebecca Sive: With Apologies to Beyonce: Chicago Women "Run This Motha" This Inauguration Day Rebecca Sive 2011
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White Americans of my age and experience had and have to confront those racial prejudices imbibed as a matter-of-course, before we knew we were imbibing them.
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Thus giving the rest of the world the impression that it's soupy down here, as a matter-of-course.
-14. Ann Althouse 2007
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I was thinking how best to improve this advantage, if it might be called one, when he took up the conversation in such a matter-of-course way, so assuming that there could be no serious question of fact between us, that I felt myself placed in the weakest of positions.
The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004
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I was thinking how best to improve this advantage, if it might be called one, when he took up the conversation in such a matter-of-course way, so assuming that there could be no serious question of fact between us, that I felt myself placed in the weakest of positions.
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His shrewd and matter-of-course probity in all money concerns had made him something of an autocrat in connection with these trusts.
To Let 2004
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Hand, foot, intellect and heart were the matter-of-course requirements.
Swan Song 2004
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Maurice had a sudden vision of bliss; but no sooner had Louise appeared again, with the shopman bowing behind her, then Ephie came round to his side, with a naive, matter-of-course air that admitted of no rebuff, and asked him to carry her opera-glass.
Maurice Guest 2003
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But to her surprise that lady, who indeed never fell into the mere matter-of-course, said to her in a few moments
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