TRULY Definition & Meaning

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truly

[ troo-lee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

in accordance with fact or truth; truthfully:
Whatever his faults, he lived a life that can be truly said to be significant.
legitimately; by right:
Those assets and properties are no longer truly his.
really; genuinely; honestly:
We're truly sorry for the delay.
to the fullest extent or degree:
The property should be viewed to truly appreciate all it has to offer.
to a great extent or degree:
The film is littered with some truly dreadful sequences.
sincerely (a conventional term used at the end of a letter):
Yours truly, Allan Burns.
exactly; accurately; correctly:
The clock runs truly.
rightly; properly; duly:
To truly worship God, we must know Him and not be ignorant of His glorious nature.
indeed; without doubt; verily:
Truly, she is a fair-haired angel.
Archaic. faithfully; loyally.

truly

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adverb

in a true, just, or faithful manner
(intensifier)
a truly great man
indeed; really

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of truly¹

First recorded before 1000; Middle English treuli, Old English �ٰ�ŧ�Ƿɱ�ī��; tru(e) + -ly ( def )

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Musk responded with tweets in which he called Navarro “truly a moron” and “dumber than a sack of bricks.”

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I don’t think I ever truly imagined, though, what it might be like for this country to be at its own throat again, especially in the eerily strange way it is today.

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"We just don't meet enough founders who are doing something truly deep tech or going after big ambitious problem statements," he said.

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Once you tear away at the protections and pillars of a democratic system, things can convert very quickly, and you start getting truly unhinged legislatures.

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Herd described it as "life or death, truly", adding: "It's really scary."

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