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Meanings

1. One after the other; successively; alternating.
   • I am by turns angry and amused. I am the butchest of the three roommates; obviously she thought I was the most likely to get over my “bisexual phase.” 1995, Robin Sweeney, “Too Butch to Be Bi (or You Can't Judge a Boy by Her Lover)”, in Naomi Tucker, Liz Highleyman, Rebecca Kaplan, editors, Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries, and Visions, Binghamton: The Haworth Press, →ISBN, page 185:
2. (obsolete) At intervals; from time to time.
   • [They] feel by turns the bitter change. 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

Relateds

in turn · in turns

Translations (9)

it a rotazione (One after the other; successively; alternating) · is til skiptis (One after the other; successively; alternating) · pl na zmianę (One after the other; successively; alternating) · sv om vartannat (One after the other; successively; alternating) · sv växelvis (One after the other; successively; alternating) · sv ömsom (One after the other; successively; alternating) · hu felváltva (One after the other; successively; alternating) · pl na przemian (One after the other; successively; alternating) · gd mu seach (One after the other; successively; alternating)