English

Adverb

severally ‎(not comparable)

1. separately
   • 1607, William Shakespeare, The Life of Timon of Athens, II.ii

     I will dispatch you severally — you to Lord Lucius; to Lord Lucullus you; I hunted with his honour to-day.

   • 1611, Bible (KJV), 1Corinthians 12:8-11:

     For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: but all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.

   • 1912, James Stephens, The Crock of Gold, New York: MacMillan, 1926, Book V, p. 229,

     The policemen severally presented him with a pipe, a tin of tobacco, two boxes of matches and a dictionary, and then they withdrew leaving him to his own devices.

   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter X, p. 162,

     As it was, they were unable to discuss the details severally as they would have done had murder not become thus wholesale.

2. (Africa) Several times, repeatedly
   • 2012, Business Daily (Kenya), 12 November, 2012,

     It tells them that those rules can be broken; and certainly they will break them, not once or twice but severally.

   • 2016, Nigeria Today, 29 April, 2016,

     It was at the point of confronting Alaba, who had been warned severally along with other tenants, that Ogunyemi met her demise.