Definition of Plainly

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Definition of Plainly
	Plainly In a plain manner; clearly. Related Definitions: Clearly, In, Manner, Plain

Plainly Quotations

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
Alice Walker

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
Niels Bohr

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
H. G. Wells

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
William Penn

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
John Ruskin

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.
Henri Bergson

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.
Joseph Butler

It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.
Sargent Shriver

Plainly Translations

plainly in German is einfache, schlechthin
plainly in Latin is videlicet, plane, evidenter
plainly in Swedish is helt enkelt

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