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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
indeed
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Minorities are not well represented. Indeed, the city has only one black city council member.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A very, very average thing indeed, like a potato.
▪ Although twenty years have passed since that night, I can still remember everything about it very clearly indeed.
▪ And indeed, Rasche was getting closer.
▪ Anyway, the first form of Bubo in the film was indeed a real owl.
▪ Being a 3D game, you can view objects from any angle, or indeed yourself!
▪ Longer hours, indeed, would merely mean more unsold coal.
▪ These are very important propositions indeed.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indeed

Indeed \In*deed"\, adv. [Prep. in + deed.] In reality; in truth; in fact; verily; truly; -- used in a variety of senses. Esp.:

  1. Denoting emphasis; as, indeed it is so.

  2. Denoting concession or admission; as, indeed, you are right.

  3. Denoting surprise; as, indeed, is it you? Its meaning is not intrinsic or fixed, but depends largely on the form of expression which it accompanies.

    The carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
    --Rom. viii. 7.

    I were a beast indeed to do you wrong.
    --Dryden.

    There is, indeed, no great pleasure in visiting these magazines of war.
    --Addison.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
indeed

early 14c., in dede "in fact, in truth," from Old English dæd (see deed). Written as two words till c.1600. As an interjection, 1590s; as an expression of surprise or disgust, 1834. Emphatic form in yes (or no) indeedy attested from 1856, American English.

Wiktionary
indeed

adv. (lb en modal) truly; in fact; actually. interj. indicates emphatic agreement

WordNet
indeed
  1. adv. in truth (often tends to intensify); "they said the car would break down and indeed it did"; "it is very cold indeed"; "was indeed grateful"; "indeed, the rain may still come"; "he did so do it!" [syn: so]

  2. (used as an interjection) an expression of surprise or skepticism or irony etc.; "Wants to marry the butler? Indeed!"

Usage examples of "indeed".

In fact, the opening was depressingly familiar, full of protestations of loyalty to both King George and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, plus a promise that the authors would willingly fight the French, indeed die for their country, but they could not face another day aboard such a hellish ship.

While it is indeed possible to derive stem cells from aborted embryos, it is seldom done for two reasons.

These cases of the simultaneous darkening or blackening of the glands from the action of weak solutions are important, as they show that all the glands absorbed the carbonate within the same time, which fact indeed there was not the least reason to doubt.

Indeed, it is more than likely that the first person to be suspended from the beams in the cellar of 25 Cromwell Street and sexually abused was Rosemary West herself, and that she and her husband then decided to subject other people to the experience.

Indeed it is not in the public interest that straightforwardness should be extirpated root and branch, for the presence of a small modicum of sincerity acts as a wholesome irritant to the academicism of the greatest number, stimulating it to consciousness of its own happy state, and giving it something to look down upon.

The reduction of the kingdom of Osrhoene was an acquisition of less splendor indeed, but of a far more solid advantage.

But it would indeed mean that the same forces who control the Actionists also control the machinery of the Humanity Party.

A great many expressions of kindred tenor might easily be adduced, leaving it hardly possible to doubt as indeed we are not aware that any one does doubt that many of the Jews literally held that sin was the sole cause of bodily dissolution.

It is my, great honor, indeed my personal privilege, to introduce to you, my colleagues, Michaelangelo Fetterizzini, Fellow of the American Tonsil, Adenoid and Vas Deferens Society.

A virtue is none the less to be desired for its own sake, because it has some adventitious profit connected with it: indeed, in most cases the noblest virtues are accompanied by many extraneous advantages, but it is the virtues that lead the way, and these merely follow in their train.

Many were too large to fit comfortably in buildings constructed on a human scale, and others, such as the Afanc and other water-dwellers, were unable to leave their own element, though they could move from Upper to Lower waters, and indeed, to other lakes and waterways in Gendival, via a network of subterranean waterways carved out by the Gaeorn long ago.

Monte Cristo was more affectionate than ever, -- indeed, his manner was so kind that several times Morrel was on the point of telling him all.

Clem for something of this kind, yet he had managed things so well that up to the time of his departure she had not been able to remark a single suspicious circumstance, unless, indeed, it were the joyous affectionateness with which he continued to behave, She herself had been passing through a time of excitement and even of suffering.

The measliest afrit is worth avoiding, and this one was formidable indeed.

Indeed, based on its public agenda, The American Society of Newspaper Editors might think about changing its name to the American Society of Racial Bean Counters.