ultimately

Adverb

Meaning

As a final consequence; at last; in the end; as, afflictions often tend to correct immoral habits, and ultimately prove blessings.

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Examples

Christ's kingdom is not of this world, and the world cannot bear it. We constantly rebel, try to make life easier, try to be half-Christian, try to make the best of both worlds. We must ultimately choose - our felicity lies in one world or the other, not in both. Seraphim Rose

A nation's strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others. Indira Gandhi

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect. Herbert Spencer

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. Ezra Pound

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us. Immanuel Kant

The wealth of the greedy ultimately goes to the community. African Proverb

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