Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- For the most part.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete For the most part.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb obsolete
mostly ; for the most part
Etymologies
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most + what
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Examples
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Kira wasn't sure what unnerved her mostwhat Sisko wasn't telling her, or what he'd almost said between the lines.
Time's Enemy Graf, L. A. 1996
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Neither would we have any expect our full sense to each particular imaginable in this business, -- it being only a heap of materials, mostwhat unhewed, that we intend, and not a well-compacted fabric; and if the main be not condemned, we are confident no difference will ensue about particulars, which must have their latitude.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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