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adverb

Barely adv.

Without covering; nakedly.

Without concealment or disguise.

Merely; only. "R. For now his son is duke. W. Barely in title, not in revenue."

But just; without any excess; with nothing to spare (of quantity, time, etc.); hence, scarcely; hardly; as, there was barely enough for all; he barely escaped.

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Etymology of 'Barely'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... "Barely enough to let me understand that where one man is talking now, a hundred will be talking next week. There was a young doctor up there in the operating room. He doesn't say it in so many words, but he suspects that it wasn't ...

— From the Housetops • George Barr McCutcheon

... Mistress Satchell, who had barely time to compose her ruffled countenance when Brilliana came through the yew arch and paused on the edge of the pleasaunce surveying the ...

— The Lady of Loyalty House - A Novel • Justin Huntly McCarthy

... operation of the Roman revolution—in the seizure, for instance, of the property of the soil in the province of Asia by Gaius Gracchus, in the Roman tenths and customs, and in the human hunts which the collectors of the revenue added to their other avocations there—the Roman rule, barely tolerable even from the first, pressed so heavily on Asia that neither the crown of the king nor the hut of the peasant there was any longer safe from confiscation, that every stalk of corn seemed to grow for the Roman -decumanus-, and every child of free parents seemed ...

— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen

... But barely had she done speaking, when Yuean Yang too walked in. "Old goody Liu," she said laughingly, "don't be angry! I tender you ...

— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin

... her room that sultry June night Sophy had encountered the persistent Tack. Ella Morrissey, up in her room, was fathoms deep in work. It was barely eight o'clock and there was a wonderful opal sky—a June twilight sky, of which Paris makes a specialty—all grey and rose ...

— Cheerful--By Request • Edna Ferber

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