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Webster 1913 Edition


Eventually

E-ven′tu-al-ly

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adv.
In an eventual manner; finally; ultimately.

Webster 1828 Edition


Eventually

EVENT'UALLY

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adv.
In the event; in the final result or issue.

Definition 2024


eventually

eventually

English

Adverb

eventually (not comparable)

  1. In the end.
    • 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage,
      It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
  2. (mathematics, of a sequence) For some tail.

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