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Grammar : Adv |
Spell : rash-uh-nl, rash-nl |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈræʃ ə nl, ˈræʃ nl |
Definition of rationally
Origin :- late 14c., "pertaining to reason;" mid-15c., "endowed with reason," from Old French racionel and directly from Latin rationalis "of or belonging to reason, reasonable," from ratio (genitive rationis) "reckoning, calculation, reason" (see ratio).
- adv sensibly
- His worthy brother, the Major, might have been as rationally suspected.
- Extract from : « The Group » by Mercy Warren
- They acted "instinctively," or automatically, not rationally.
- Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
- All I have to ask is that we talk reasonably and rationally about it.
- Extract from : « The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Volume Three » by Abraham Lincoln
- To a man there is but one choice that he can rationally make, a marriage of love.
- Extract from : « The Ladies Book of Useful Information » by Anonymous
- Outside of America there are no cars that are so rationally devised.
- Extract from : « Following the Equator, Complete » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
- The number of the rationally conscientious is as small as is that of the convivial.
- Extract from : « Quaker Hill » by Warren H. Wilson
- The only Eugenist that could rationally attack him must be a man of no woman born.
- Extract from : « Eugenics and Other Evils » by G. K. Chesterton
- The time when I seem to be most rationally employed is when I am reading.
- Extract from : « The Works of William Cowper » by William Cowper
- I have known some who have been rationally educated, as it is styled.
- Extract from : « Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. I (of 2) » by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- It really will be too great happiness; I never can think of it coolly or rationally.
- Extract from : « Up the Country » by Emily Eden
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