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truly |
Overview of adv truly The adv truly has 4 senses (first 2 from tagged texts) 1. (20) truly, genuinely, really -- (in accordance with truth or fact or reality; "she was now truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they don't really listen to us") 2. (1) rightfully, truly -- (by right "baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime") 3. sincerely, unfeignedly, truly -- (with sincerity; without pretense; "she praised him sincerely for his victory"; "was unfeignedly glad to see his old teacher"; "we are truly sorry for the inconvenience") 4. in truth, really, truly, forsooth -- ((used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers) "in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire"; "really, you shouldn't have done it"; "a truly awful book"; (`forsooth' is archaic and now usually used to express disbelief)) Overview of adv truly The adv truly has 4 senses (first 2 from tagged texts) 1. (20) truly, genuinely, really -- (in accordance with truth or fact or reality; "she was now truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they don't really listen to us") 2. (1) rightfully, truly -- (by right "baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime") 3. sincerely, unfeignedly, truly -- (with sincerity; without pretense; "she praised him sincerely for his victory"; "was unfeignedly glad to see his old teacher"; "we are truly sorry for the inconvenience") 4. in truth, really, truly, forsooth -- ((used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers) "in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire"; "really, you shouldn't have done it"; "a truly awful book"; (`forsooth' is archaic and now usually used to express disbelief))
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