Definition of Commonly

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Definition of Commonly
	Commonly Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue through life. In common; familiarly. Related Definitions: As, Common, Commonly, Continue, Familiarly, For, Frequently, Generally, In, Life, Most, Ordinarily, Part, The, Through

Commonly Quotations

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
Henry David Thoreau

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
Martin Luther

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
Jonathan Swift

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
Soren Kierkegaard

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
Ambrose Bierce

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
Ambrose Bierce

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
Ambrose Bierce

Commonly Translations

commonly in Italian is frequente
commonly in Latin is plerumque
commonly in Spanish is normalmente, frequente
commonly in Swedish is vanliga

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