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4 words match “PREFERABLY”

PREFERABLY adv.
In preference; by choice. To choose Plautus preferably to Terence. Dennis.
GAOL n.
place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail. [Preferably, and in the United States usually, written jail.] Commission of general gaol delivery, an authority conferred upon judges and others included in it, for trying and delivering every prisoner in jail when the judges, upon…
GLADLY adv.
Preferably; by choice. [Obs.] Chaucer.
RATHER adv.
More readily or willingly; preferably. My soul chooseth . . . death rather than my life. Job vii. 15.