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Definition of Merely
1. Adverb. And nothing more. "Hopes that last but a moment"
Definition of Merely
1. adv. Purely; unmixedly; absolutely.
Definition of Merely
1. Adverb. (obsolete) Wholly, entirely. (defdate 16th-20th c.) ¹
2. Adverb. (context: focus) Without any other reason etc.; only, just, and nothing more. (defdate from 16th c.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Merely
1. mere [adv] - See also: mere
Lexicographical Neighbors of Merely
Literary usage of Merely
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume (1890)
"Its merely mental character renders it in Locke's language a ' trifling ...
Because merely mental, such knowledge is real—there being n0 reality for it to ..."
2. Kant's Kritik of Judgment by Immanuel Kant (1892)
"Of the objective purposiveness which is merely formal as distinguished from that
which is material All geometrical figures drawn on a principle display a ..."
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