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Otherwise

adverb

In other respects or ways. "The funds are not otherwise available" , "An otherwise hopeless situation"

In another and different manner. Synonyms: differently, other than. "She thought otherwise" , "There is no way out other than the fire escape"

adjective

Other than as supposed or expected.

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"Otherwise" Quotes from Famous Books

... balance, it is not natural, but violent; and therefore if it be at the devotion of a prince, it is tyranny; if at the devotion of the few, oligarchy; or if in the power of the people, anarchy: Each of which confusions, the balance standing otherwise, is but of short continuance, because against the nature of the balance, which, not destroyed, ...

— The Commonwealth of Oceana • James Harrington

... bowl filled with goats' milk, and if you can manage to dip a piece of bread in this milk, and eat it before you are obliged to fly, you will understand all the secrets of the night that are hidden from other men. It is lucky for you that the serpent-king's feast happens to fall this year, otherwise you would have had long to wait for it. But take care to be quick and bold, or it will be the ...

— The Violet Fairy Book • Various

... abuse and persecution which he has had to encounter in the last seven years. There are traces in his face of the intense mental suffering through which he has passed; there are more lines about the eyes than should be in the case of a man who is just fifty. But, otherwise, he positively looks younger than he did when he was a Cabinet Minister. There is colour where there used to be nothing but deadly pallor—freshness where the long and terrible drudgery of official life had left a permanent look of fag and weariness. Sir Charles Dilke has taken up the ...

— Sketches In The House (1893) • T. P. O'Connor

... sublime, its writer's genius should be so too; otherwise it becomes the meanest thing in writing, viz. ...

— The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 • Edward Young

... returned Michael soothingly. "I rather like you than otherwise; there's such a permanent surprise about you, you look so dark and attractive from a distance. Do you know that to the naked eye you look romantic?—like what they call a man with a history? And indeed, from all that I can hear, the history of the leather trade ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

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