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adverb

Merely adv.

Purely; unmixedly; absolutely. "Ulysses was to force forth his access, Though merely naked."

Not otherwise than; simply; barely; only. "Prize not your life for other ends Than merely to oblige your friends."

Synonyms: Solely; simply; purely; barely; scarcely.

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Etymology of 'Merely'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Merely" Quotes from Famous Books

... must leave the affair, merely noting that the Anglo-French agreement of March 1899 peaceably ended the dispute and placed the whole of the Egyptian Sudan, together with the Bahr-el-Ghazal district and the greater part of the Libyan Desert, west of Egypt, under the Anglo-Egyptian ...

— The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) • John Holland Rose

... them belonged to these PSAs merely for the sake of the loaves and fishes. Every now and then they were awarded prizes—Self-help by Smiles, and other books suitable for perusal by persons suffering from almost complete obliteration of ...

— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell

... visit. On the following day we dined, by invitation, with the superintendent of the Wesleyan mission, in company with several missionaries. Freedom in Antigua was the engrossing and delightful topic. They rejoiced in the change, not merely from sympathy with the disinthralled negroes, but because it had emancipated them from a disheartening surveillance, and opened new fields of usefulness. They hailed the star of freedom "with exceeding great joy," because it heralded the speedy dawning of the ...

— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... The doctor told him that the little body of his son had been born still. After that it was rather a stupor of despair than courage that carried him through the vain struggle for life of the worn-out housewife who became only almost a mother. It seemed merely the logical completion of the world's cruelty when the doctor laid a heavy hand on his shoulder and walked out of the door, without leaving any prescription to fill. Rudd stood like a wooden Indian, too ...

— In a Little Town • Rupert Hughes

... God was so good to her; there were fine bright days and nights; a few showers had fallen, but merely passing ones; the air was so cool and so balmy that it served her almost as food; and she seldom found people so unkind that they refused for her single little sou to give her a crust of bread and let ...

— Bebee • Ouida

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