chronally

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adverb

With regard to time.

Scrabble 17
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Meanings

adverbchronally (not comparable)
  1. not comparableWith regard to time.

    The typical form has a life-cycle of seventeen years, but there is a thirteen-year race (Cicada tredecim Riley) found chiefly in the Southern States, and therefore separated from the typical form, both locally and chronally.

    1905, John Thomas Gulick, Evolution, racial and habitudinal, page 123

Origin

From chronal + -ly.

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APA

chronally. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chronally

MLA

“chronally.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chronally. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “chronally,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chronally.

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