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Wholly   /hˈoʊli/   Listen
Wholly

adverb
1.
To a complete degree or to the full or entire extent ('whole' is often used informally for 'wholly').  Synonyms: all, altogether, completely, entirely, totally, whole.  "Entirely satisfied with the meal" , "It was completely different from what we expected" , "Was completely at fault" , "A totally new situation" , "The directions were all wrong" , "It was not altogether her fault" , "An altogether new approach" , "A whole new idea"  Antonym: partly.






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... their halls for meeting, their colleges of chief officers, their heads, called Consoli or Priors, and their flags. In 1266 it was decided that the administration of the commonwealth should be placed simply and wholly in the hands of the Arti, and the Priors of these industrial companies became the lords or Signory of Florence. No inhabitant of the city who had not enrolled himself as a craftsman in one of the guilds could exercise any function of burghership. To be scioperato, ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series • John Addington Symonds

... to Rome and came under the influence of Michael Angelo and Raphael. He tried, under Michael Angelo's inspiration it is said, to unite the Florentine grandeur of line with the Venetian coloring, and thus outdo Raphael. It was not wholly successful, though resulting in an excellent quality of art. As a portrait-painter he was above reproach. His early works were rather free in impasto, the late ones smooth and ...
— A Text-Book of the History of Painting • John C. Van Dyke

... out—so it hath been ordained in this scene of trial—even to the best and purest of heart, which must carry sorrow to the bosom, and bring tears to the eyelids; and then to the wayward and the wicked, bitter is their misery as the waters of Marah. But never can the good man be wholly unhappy; he has that within which passeth show; the anchor of his faith is fixed on the Rock of Ages; and when the dark cloud hath glided over—and it will glide—it leaves behind it the blue ...
— The Life of Mansie Wauch - Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself • David Macbeth Moir

... essay in a public function, the kind words of the duke, or the magnificent weather out of doors, keenly enjoyed by this southerner, with his susceptibility to wholly physical impressions and accustomed to life under a blue sky and the warmth of the sunshine—however that may have been, certain it is that the attendants of the legislative body beheld that day a proud and haughty Jansoulet whom they had not previously ...
— The Nabob • Alphonse Daudet

... GOLDEN DAYS as one of the purest and most charming juvenile magazines we have seen. It is wholly free from corrupting influences—fresh, instructive, and eagerly welcomed by the boys and girls. Having seen nothing in it to censure and much to praise, we hope it may have ...
— Golden Days for Boys and Girls - Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 • Various


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