namely
Common misspellings:
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- namly (31.6%)
- namily (15.8%)
- namley (52.6%)
Usage examples for namely:
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They decided to go the way they had come, namely to follow the tracks to the crossing and then turn off for home.
"The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship" – Margaret Burnham -
Then Frank, Jones's right- hand man, put into execution a plan he had been thinking of- namely to travel by night.
"The Last of the Plainsmen" – Zane Grey -
Now I find them joined in the mention of them with Solomon's drinking vessels, and since as they were made of fine or pure gold, I take them also to be vessels of the same kind, namely vessels to drink in.
"The Works of John Bunyan Volume 3" – John Bunyan -
We note here a curious circumstance; namely that Hawthorne appears to have lost the art of writing short sketches.
"The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne" – Frank Preston Stearns