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independently, adv.|ɪndɪˈpɛndəntlɪ|
[f. independent a. + -ly2.]
In an independent manner; without dependence on another person or thing, or on each other; apart from or without regard to the action of others.
1651J. Goodwin Redemption Red. i. §10 Second causes..do not perform, what..they do perform, independently, and of themselves. 1849T. R. Birks Horæ Apostol. Pref., My own conclusions were formed independently. Ibid., The dates to which I have been independently led agree very nearly with those adopted in the Literary History. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xxv. 186 Mr. Wills..made the same observation independently. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xxiii, She can hardly earn her own poor bread independently. 1886Farrar Hist. Interpret. 403 He examined the Canon as independently as Luther had done. Mod. The two parts of the mechanism work independently.
b. With of (formerly on, upon, from): In a way independent of; without regard to; apart from.
1659Pearson Creed (1845) 485 note, Independently from this place, we have proved, that the Holy Spirit is a person. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §7. 199 They Maintained Matter to exist Independently upon God. a1700Dryden (J.), Dispose lights and shadows, without finishing every thing independently the one of the other. 1707S. Clarke 3rd & 4th Def. (1712) 7, Parts, existing distinctly and independently from each other. 1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 274 The infinitive mood is often made absolute, or used independently on the rest of the sentence. 1867Trollope Chron. Barset II. li. 76 So that he might work at his canvas independently of his model. 1884J. Rae Contemp. Socialism 165 Utility can confer value independently of labour. |