truly
in accordance with truth or fact or reality
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,297 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 14,130 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.007% of every word in the library.
What it means
adverb
- in accordance with truth or fact or reality also: genuinely, really she was now truly Americana genuinely open society
- by right also: rightfully baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime
- with sincerity; without pretense also: sincerely, unfeignedly she praised him sincerely for his victorywas unfeignedly glad to see his old teacher
- in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers) also: in truth, really in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empirereally, you shouldn't have done it
truly in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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O but she will love him truly!
Poems Every Child Should Know · Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) [Editor] Burt · Chapter 1
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It was a hard alternative truly; but what could she do?
Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 · Robert Seymour · Chapter 1
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This was truly but a small affair to undertake so great a voyage.
Under Drake's Flag · G. A. (George Alfred) Henty · Chapter 1
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He is an angel--an angel as truly as ever angel was--an angel of deliverance.
Following the Equator — Part 1 · Mark Twain · Chapter 1
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But if thou do not love, I'll truly serve her In spite of thee, and by firm faith deserve her.
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia · Martha Foote [Editor] Crow · Chapter 1