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namely
Part of speech: AdverbThat is to say; to wit; to state more particularly.
Usage examples "namely":- " And she has hardly recovered from that disease, before she seems threatened with a worse one; namely, a hopeless passion. - "Hyperion", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
- The other of the girls, namely, Gladys, had betrayed just a little shyness, and had left his young allies to go and fetch Crayshaw without her. - "Fated to Be Free", Jean Ingelow.
- But, at all events, Mr. Chillingly Mivers was what Mr. Chillingly Gordon was not; namely, a very clever man, and by no means an unpleasant one in general society. - "Kenelm Chillingly, Complete", Edward Bulwer-Lytton.