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adj. - Taking place by degrees.

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  • Here also it is obvious, that although John only presents these opposites in their generic form, yet we are necessarily led to the idea of gradational differences in the...
  • The evaluation of the principal versions of the idea of evil inclines us to a gradational view.
  • The antithesis was directional and gradational; the good was always in the upward reach, the evil in the downward drag.
  • The northwestern boundary is gradational, as more gentle slopes and lower relief are found towards the center of the region.
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