provisionallyadv.
/prəˈvɪʒn̩əli/, /prəˈvɪʒn̩l̩i/, /prəˈvɪʒənl̩i/, /prəˈvɪʒ(ə)nəli/, U.S. /prəˈvɪʒ(ə)nəli/, /proʊˈvɪʒ(ə)nəli/ In a provisional manner; as a temporary measure.
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the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [adverb] > provisionally or temporarily
passingly1340
pro tempore1468
while1508
temporally1530
provisionally1597
interlocutorily1620
for the nonce1672
temporarilya1686
ad interim1701
probationally1707
pro tem1777
provisorily1802
to the nonce1802
temporaneously1818
transitionally1832
1597 Queen Elizabeth I Let. 28 Oct. (1935) 254 (modernized text) We have thus directed you provisionally how you shall proceed in these occasions whereof we have advertisement daily from you.
1602 Queen Elizabeth I Let. 31 Oct. in F. Moryson Itinerary (1617) ii. iii. i. 247 We are content prouisionally to warrant your proceedings in any thinh [sic] you doe, or publish in Our name.
1692 London Gaz. No. 2729/3 The Place..is given provisionally to the Count de Clermont, till the arrival of the Elector of Bavaria.
1754 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VII. l. 251 Remember that your grandfather never designed this estate for Laurana. It was only to be provisionally hers.
1793 E. Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 149 His personal virtues..make him the fittest to authorize this arrangement provisionally.
1836 N. Tucker Partisan Leader II. xxxvii. 151 The men were divided into corps, to each of which a post was provisionally assigned, to be occupied as soon as the approach of the enemy should be announced.
1878 S. Newcomb Pop. Astron. iii. ii. 266 This hydrogen is always mixed with another substance, provisionally called helium.
1941 D. Thomas Let. 25 Apr. (1985) 482 Faber's are bringing out his poems this year. I'm very glad. Provisionally titled ‘Gratitude of a Leper’, though I'm not quite sure myself.
1986 N. Symington Analytic Experience vii. 87 A special kind of knowledge, let us provisionally call it subjective knowledge, has an effect on the hearer.
2005 Guardian 27 July i. 17/4 Nine months after Somerfield acquired 115 small and mid-sized former Safeway stores..the Competition Commission has provisionally concluded that the transfer of ownership of 14 of them threatens local competition.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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