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adverb

Truly adv.

In a true manner; according to truth; in agreement with fact; as, to state things truly; the facts are truly represented. "I can not truly say how I came here."

Exactly; justly; precisely; accurately; as, to estimate truly the weight of evidence.

Sincerely; honestly; really; faithfully; as, to be truly attached to a lover; the citizens are truly loyal to their prince or their country.

Conformably to law; legally; legitimately. "His innocent babe (is) truly begotten."

In fact; in deed; in reality; in truth. "Beauty is excelled by manly grace And wisdom, which alone is truly fair."

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Etymology of 'Truly'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Truly" Quotes from Famous Books

... I cannot mention to her—I cannot speak to her about money. Will you please give me full information? I enclose 20 pounds, and I must trust to your discretion. I thank you heartily for all your kindness.—Truly yours, ...

— Clara Hopgood • Mark Rutherford

... to Italy in the matter of our literature began with Chaucer. Truly original and national as was the framework of the 'Canterbury Tales,' we can hardly doubt but that Chaucer was determined in the form adopted for his poem by the example of Boccaccio. The subject-matter, also, of many of his tales was taken from Boccaccio's prose or verse. For example, the story ...

— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series • John Addington Symonds

... only add, that the result of my own observation leads me to believe that by far the most influential of these causes has been the invention of cheaper modes of manufacturing. The extent to which this can be carried, while a profit can yet be realized at the reduced price, is truly astonishing, as the following fact, which rests on good authority, will prove. Twenty years since, a brass knob for the locks of doors was made at Birmingham; the price, at that time, being 13s. 4d. per dozen. The same article is now manufactured, having the same weight of metal, ...

— On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures • Charles Babbage

... friends whose home lay at a distance. She ate and drank and took her share in the talk as matter of course, believing all at the table would judge her a heartless creature, and careless of what they might think or say. But they judged her more kindly and more truly than she judged herself. They saw through her eyes the deeps whose upward ducts were choked with the frost ...

— Thomas Wingfold, Curate • George MacDonald

... ground is sown then the harrow will come and pull the corn into the hollow which is between the two ridges and the large ridge shall be uncovered, then no corn shall grow there. And will you see this? When the corn is above ground go to the end of the ridge and you will see that I tell you truly. And if the land must be sown below the ridge see that it is ploughed with small furrows and the earth raised as much as you are able. And see that the ridge which is between the two furrows is narrow. And let the earth, which lies like a crest in the furrow under the left foot after ...

— Roman Farm Management - The Treatises Of Cato And Varro • Marcus Porcius Cato

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