severally
Anything done severally is done separately or independently, like when your classmates are called severally, or one at a time, to come up and solve a math problem on the board.
The adverb severally isn't used very often in everyday speech — it's much more common in legal documents. For example, a judge may find three defendants severally liable, or individually obligated to pay for something. The opposite of this is being jointly liable, or responsible along with at least one other person. Severally comes from several, which originally meant "separate."
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apart from others“the clothes were hung severally”synonyms: independently
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apart from otherssynonyms: individually, on an individual basis, one by one, separately, singly
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in the order givensynonyms: respectively
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To punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party, the British Parliament enforced acts that the colonies found intolerable. In response, they convened the First Continental Congress in 1774 to outline a list of grievances, rights, and resolves. Read the full text here. Here are links to our lists for other notable declarations: Declaration of Colonial Rights, Declaration of the Rights of Man, Declaration of the Rights of Woman, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
In this tragedy, King Lear's plan to divide his kingdom between his three daughters leads to his downfall when he misjudges their true feelings.
In this medieval poem, originally composed in Middle English in the 14th century, a mysterious green knight issues a challenge to the knights of King Arthur's court. Learn these words from the translation by J.R.R. Tolkien.