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Definition of Truly
1. Adverb. In accordance with truth or fact or reality. "They don't really listen to us"
2. Adverb. By right. "Baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime"
3. Adverb. With sincerity; without pretense. "We are truly sorry for the inconvenience"
4. Adverb. In fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers). "A truly awful book"
Definition of Truly
1. adv. In a true manner; according to truth; in agreement with fact; as, to state things truly; the facts are truly represented.
Definition of Truly
1. Adverb. In accordance with the facts; truthfully, accurately. ¹
2. Adverb. Honestly, genuinely, in fact, really. ¹
3. Adverb. Very. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Truly
1. in conformity with fact or reality [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Truly
Literary usage of Truly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (1921)
"CHRIST truly AND PROPERLY SAID TO HAVE MERITED THE GRACE OF OOD AND SALVATION
FOR OS. WE must devote an additional Chapter to the solution of this question. ..."
2. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"Something of this kind, I replied :—God is always to be represented as he truly
is; that is one form which is equally to be observed in every kind of verse, ..."
3. Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare (2001)
"Why truly, now I consider the thing, I'm o'the same Mind ; ' I have been a little
too cruel ; he must have been in a world of Anguish, poor 'Wretch! ..."
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