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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Very  \Ver"y\,  a.  [Compar.  {Verier};  superl.  {Veriest}.]  [OE. 
  verai,  verray,  OF  verai,  vrai,  F.  vrai,  (assumed)  LL 
  veracus  for  L.  verax  true,  veracious,  fr  verus  true;  akin 
  to  OHG.  &  OS  w[=a]r,  G.  wahr,  D.  waar;  perhaps  originally, 
  that  is  or  exists,  and  akin  to  E.  was  Cf  {Aver},  v.  t., 
  {Veracious},  {Verdict},  {Verity}.] 
  True;  real;  actual;  veritable. 
 
  Whether  thou  be  my  very  son  Esau  or  not  --Gen.  xxvii. 
  21. 
 
  He  that  covereth  a  transgression  seeketh  love;  but  he 
  that  repeateth  a  matter  separateth  very  friends. 
  --Prov.  xvii. 
  9. 
 
  The  very  essence  of  truth  is  plainness  and  brightness. 
  --Milton. 
 
  I  looked  on  the  consideration  of  public  service  or 
  public  ornament  to  be  real  and  very  justice.  --Burke. 
 
  Note:  Very  is  sometimes  used  to  make  the  word  with  which  it 
  is  connected  emphatic,  and  may  then  be  paraphrased  by 
  same  self-same,  itself  and  the  like  ``The  very  hand, 
  the  very  words.''  --Shak.  ``The  very  rats  instinctively 
  have  quit  it.''  --Shak.  ``Yea,  there  where  very 
  desolation  dwells.''  --Milton.  Very  is  used 
  occasionally  in  the  comparative  degree,  and  more 
  frequently  in  the  superlative.  ``Was  not  my  lord  the 
  verier  wag  of  the  two?''  --Shak.  ``The  veriest  hermit 
  in  the  nation.''  --Pope.  ``He  had  spoken  the  very 
  truth,  and  transformed  it  into  the  veriest  falsehood.'' 
  --Hawthorne. 
 
  {Very  Reverend}.  See  the  Note  under  {Reverend}.