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wholly

adv
/ˈhəʊ.li/UK/ˈhoʊ.li/US

Etymology

From Middle English holly, holeliche, holliche (also as halely, hallich, etc.). Doublet of earlier holy. By surface analysis, whol(e) + -ly.

  1. inherited from holly

Definitions

  1. Completely and entirely

    Completely and entirely; to the fullest extent.

    • wholly wrong
    • And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet haue troden, shall be thine inheritance, and thy childrens for euer, because thou hast wholly followed the Lord my God.
    • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.

  2. Exclusively and solely.

    • A creature wholly given to brawls and wine.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

7 hops · closes at wholly

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

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA