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OF COURSE
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
As might be expected
Example:
naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill
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Context examples:
“Unless, of course, you have grown tired of my poor efforts.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Of course it may not be either the Sereth or the Pruth, but we may possibly investigate further.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Mr. Creakle, at whom of course I looked, shook his head without looking at me, and stopped up a sigh with a very large piece of buttered toast.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Of course I understand. He deserves all that can be done for him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
They had the advantage of numbers, of course, but we had the advantage of arms.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
His ticket, of course, would show that.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I admired your resolution very much, sir, said he, in venturing out in such weather, for of course you saw there would be snow very soon.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
My other sacrifice, of course, you do not understand.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Edward was, of course, immediately convinced that nothing could have been more natural than Lucy's conduct, nor more self-evident than the motive of it.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
You must give me leave to flatter myself, my dear cousin, that your refusal of my addresses is merely words of course.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
