subordinately

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

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

Both are probably of the most remote antiquity; both have been largely employed as an architectural ornament, and subordinately as a decoration of vases, costume, furniture and implements.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John

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

Thereby any feverish irritability of the urinary organs inflicted by cold, or other nervous shock, would be subordinately allayed.

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas

As well-wishers some men may not only be nugatory but positive obstacles in your peculiar plans; but as foes you may subordinately cement them into your general design.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman