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MUTUALLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a mutual or shared manner
Example:
the goals of the negotiators were not reciprocally exclusive
Synonyms:
mutually; reciprocally
Classified under:
Pertainym:
mutual (concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return)
Context examples:
Its interactions with humans to obtain food are mutually beneficial, but to obtain care for its young it is a brutal exploiter of other birds.
(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
I cannot, therefore, allow of the departure from this place of an individual whom we mutually respect and esteem, without, my dear Sir, taking this public opportunity of thanking you, on my own behalf, and, I may undertake to add, on that of the whole of the Inhabitants of Port Middlebay, for the gratification of which you are the ministering agent.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A liquid preparation (i.e., a substance that flows readily in its natural state) that contains a drug dissolved in a suitable solvent or mixture of mutually miscible solvents; the drug has been strengthened by the evaporation of its non-active parts.
(Concentrated Solution Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
These struldbrugs and I would mutually communicate our observations and memorials, through the course of time; remark the several gradations by which corruption steals into the world, and oppose it in every step, by giving perpetual warning and instruction to mankind; which, added to the strong influence of our own example, would probably prevent that continual degeneracy of human nature so justly complained of in all ages.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Thus occupied, and mutually entertained, days passed like hours, and weeks like days.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Even before Miss Taylor had ceased to hold the nominal office of governess, the mildness of her temper had hardly allowed her to impose any restraint; and the shadow of authority being now long passed away, they had been living together as friend and friend very mutually attached, and Emma doing just what she liked; highly esteeming Miss Taylor's judgment, but directed chiefly by her own.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
He was too angry to say another word; her manner too decided to invite supplication; and in this state of swelling resentment, and mutually deep mortification, they had to continue together a few minutes longer, for the fears of Mr. Woodhouse had confined them to a foot-pace.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
