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truly

adv
/ˈtɹuːli/

Etymology

From Middle English truely, treuly, treuli, trewely, treoweliche, treowliche, from Old English trēowlīċe (“faithfully; truly”), equivalent to true + -ly. Cognate with Dutch trouwelijk, Middle Low German truwlike, German treulich, Swedish trolig, Icelandic trygglega.

  1. inherited from trēowlīċe — “faithfully; truly”
  2. inherited from truely

Definitions

  1. In accordance with the facts

    In accordance with the facts; truthfully, accurately.

    • He adds, very truly, that what was fatal to such philosophies as his was not Christianity but the Copernican theory.

  2. Honestly, genuinely, in fact, really.

    • That is truly all I know.
    • Truly, that is all I know.

  3. Very.

    • You are truly silly.
    • I’m distantly related to the truly great writer, Chaim Potok, which for a magazine editor seems like a good thing.

The neighborhood

Derived

really truly, truly yours, untruly, well and truly, yours truly

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at truly. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at truly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at truly

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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