subordinately

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Her sample drawings were clipped, rather subordinately, to her photograph.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

It is only subordinately punishment, or law, or threatening, or the revelation of the wickedness of the transgression.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Maclaren, Alexander

In the first case the holder's pleasure is in his possessions, and in his money subordinately, as the means of bettering or adding to them.

From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John

Blue is present subordinately in all tertiary and broken colours, and being nearest in the scale to black, breaks and contrasts powerfully and agreeably with white, as in pale blues, skies, &c.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah