TRULY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does truly mean? 

• TRULY (adverb)
  The adverb TRULY has 4 senses:

1. in accordance with truth or fact or reality

2. by right

3. with sincerity; without pretense

4. in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers)

  Familiarity information: TRULY used as an adverb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRULY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In accordance with truth or fact or reality

Synonyms:

genuinely; really; truly

Context example:

they don't really listen to us

Pertainym:

true (consistent with fact or reality; not false)

Sense 2

Meaning:

By right

Synonyms:

rightfully; truly

Context example:

baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime

Pertainym:

true (having a legally established claim)

Sense 3

Meaning:

With sincerity; without pretense

Synonyms:

sincerely; truly; unfeignedly

Context example:

we are truly sorry for the inconvenience

Pertainym:

true (not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed)

Sense 4

Meaning:

In fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers)

Synonyms:

in truth; really; truly

Context example:

a truly awful book

Domain usage:

intensifier; intensive (a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies)

 Context examples 

“For no better reason, truly, than because I was thinking,” he said, after a pause, “of something like it, when it came by. Where the Devil did it come from, I wonder!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It is sweet to feel that you are really and truly a woman.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She felt truly for them all.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

You truly have a magical chart to wed.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

We are truly in the hands of God.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It would not be the nature of any woman who truly loved.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

It was truly hard work at first.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Aye, truly would it, my fair son.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I remain, Sir, with assurances of profound respect, yours very truly, EDWARD D. MALONE.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"It is truly astonishing!"—he cried, after hearing what she said—"what could be the Colonel's motive?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)