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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

... "Truly," he said, lying very white and feeble on his pillow and looking into Philly's face when she brought him his ...

— The Voice • Margaret Deland

... my village hunting. Let the prisoner of Prana Beach drown in his hole when the rains come, let his treasure remain unlifted till Gabriel blows his trumpet; but let yours truly bask in the shade of the beach ebony, hidden from view, and fortified by dynamite—until the satinwood shallop should see fit to ...

— IT and Other Stories • Gouverneur Morris

... and throws the whole blame upon the careless improvident character of the brown men, whose masters are obliged to lend them money to supply their pressing wants, and must take the only security they can get. He says, and truly enough, that the system works wretchedly both for masters and labourers. Any one who knows the working of the common English system of allowing workmen to run into debt with the view of retaining ...

— Anahuac • Edward Burnett Tylor

... weighty, and far more terrible than any which Obed could have made—discoveries which filled him with horror and alarm for himself, and for another who was dearer than himself. The first of these was the great, the inexplicable fact that Zillah was really and truly alive. This at once accounted for the phantom which had appeared and stricken terror to him and to Hilda. Alive, but how? Had he not himself made assurance doubly sure? had he not with his own hands scuttled that schooner in which she was? ...

— The Cryptogram - A Novel • James De Mille

... relief, seized them with their pincers and brought them to land. Three were apparently dead, but the faithful fellows licked and rubbed them quite dry, rolling them over and over, stretching themselves on them, and in a truly skillful and scientific manner sought to bring back life to their benumbed bodies. Under this treatment three came to life, while one only partly restored was carefully borne away. 'I have seen it' is Du Pont de Nervours's comment on what he thinks may be considered a marvelous story, ...

— Miss Elliot's Girls • Mrs Mary Spring Corning

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