by turns
English
Adverb
by turns
- One after the other; successively; alternating.
- (obsolete) At intervals; from time to time.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- [They] feel by turns the bitter change.
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Translations
One after the other; successively; alternating
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See also
- in turn
- in turns