(adv.) In a primary manner; in the first place; in the first place; in the first intention; originally.
Thesaurus Entries
a fortiori, ab initio, ab ovo, aborigine, above all, all the more, at bottom, at first, at heart, at the core, at the start, au fond, basically, before everything, chiefly, dominantly, especially, essentially, even, ever so, first, first and foremost, first of all, first thing, firstly, from the beginning, fundamentally, generally, in chief, in essence, in itself, in substance, in the beginning, in the main, indeed, initially, largely, mainly, materially, more than ever, mostly, never so, no end, on the whole, originally, overall, particularly, peculiarly, per se, predominantly, primitively, primo, principally, still more, substantially, yea
