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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
truly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
purely/truly random
▪ a purely random sequence of numbers
truly exceptional (=really or extremely exceptional)
▪ The film features a truly exceptional cast, including Oscar winner Denzel Washington.
truly great
▪ What makes a novel truly great?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
democratic
▪ A truly democratic government would have realised the populace was against the tax and abandoned it immediately.
▪ But many still feel that the prisoners must be released first for a truly democratic process to take place on the island.
▪ To be truly democratic, the subordinate must be willing to participate.
▪ In a truly democratic state the bureaucracy would be transcended.
global
▪ Many companies will be truly global, with workers on every continent, picked specifically for the task in hand.
▪ Bartlett and Ghoshal argue that Stage 4 companies are not truly global.
▪ Here, as elsewhere, it lacks a truly global policy.
▪ No company can call itself truly global if it neglects such potential customers.
▪ There are 18 countries represented in the league, which became truly global after the fall of the Iron Curtain.
▪ As a result regional trading blocs are emerging as natural stepping-stones in an evolutionary process toward a truly global economy.
great
▪ One of the world's few truly great beers was about to be brewed for the first time.
▪ Here was a victory of truly great moment.
▪ This was a present from some one I would class as a truly great sportsman and a truly great man.
▪ Wholly deserved by this truly great hotel!
▪ His station was an imitation of the Louvre, backed by the first truly great single-span train-shed built in the United States.
▪ These themes and features, so well sewn together are what make Great Expectations a truly great book.
▪ Again Gavin Hastings gave what was a truly great performance by any standards.
independent
▪ Nevertheless, they modified the forest by nomadic behaviour and shifting cultivation, if they became truly independent.
▪ In fact, they had no truly independent traditions at all.
▪ There is exhilaration to be had from his fresh vistas, vigorous assertions as they are of a truly independent mind.
▪ In short, while most judiciaries exercise some discretion in adjudication, the existence of a truly independent judiciary is a rarity.
▪ Even the truly independent are dependent on social and economic conditions, which are unfavourable to them.
▪ Indeed, no country is truly independent if its economy is such as to consign it at once to the Third World.
▪ Either way, there can be no doubt that when you deal with a solicitor you will receive truly independent professional advice.
▪ After the main Sparrow Force surrendered, the role of the Company was truly independent.
international
▪ For a book to have truly international appeal, it must have, well, truly international appeal!
▪ For the first time, the mighty strength of the United States was to be employed in a truly international conflict.
remarkable
▪ She was in truly remarkable condition.
▪ The clearly defined black spots and red bands of courage that set the rainbow apart from other trout are truly remarkable.
▪ The next few years were to establish Rodrigo as one of the truly remarkable soldiers of his time.
▪ The ignorance about mortgage bonds at the top of the firm was truly remarkable.
▪ Its contents are priceless and its memories are of truly remarkable people.
▪ A truly remarkable achievement and one that demonstrates the enthusiasm with which Johnson Matthey has responded to the challenge.
▪ A truly remarkable family connection of over 70 years.
▪ The camouflage devices employed are truly remarkable.
representative
▪ Like chemist and physicist we hope one day to be able to find out whether our icons are truly representative of reality.
▪ It is with this approach that we make the Group's work truly representative.
▪ Mr Denham replied that an independent appointments commission should ensure that forums were truly representative of the communities they service.
▪ From that particular point of view, of course, no case is truly representative.
▪ If this was truly representative of tomorrow's task then the event would be fiercely contested.
▪ Capsules have to be buried as near as possible, but there is no guarantee that the measurement will be truly representative.
▪ The result is an absence of diversity - a key requirement for a truly representative press and one suited for political democracy.
▪ But the question remains, how confident can we be that a formula score is truly representative of the overall difficulty level?
wonderful
▪ Simon is truly wonderful, I think.
▪ It must be truly wonderful to walk through life guarded by such a shield.
▪ John is the manager of a truly wonderful shop in Middlesbrough, Wilderness Ways.
▪ She must be a truly wonderful girl.
▪ But I do think that what he's doing is something truly wonderful - and quite different.
▪ Those few brief months after their marriage had been a truly wonderful period of emotional bliss and happiness.
▪ We could continue with this: the intricacies and refinements are truly wonderful.
▪ Temperature holds back some truly wonderful cars.
■ VERB
become
▪ Nevertheless, they modified the forest by nomadic behaviour and shifting cultivation, if they became truly independent.
▪ However, people only truly become friends when the interaction is continued outside that setting.
▪ As they grow older, they become truly independent, relying wholly on their own beliefs and ideas.
▪ Using state of the art passive backplane technology, Graphite Micro Series systems become truly modular.
▪ Operations become truly logical during the concrete operational stage.
▪ Design then becomes truly social; and the social becomes a matter of what is designed and formed socially.
▪ Finally, as the supervisor becomes a true resource manager, the team becomes truly self-managed.
believe
▪ The vibrancers had truly believed what they'd been taught and had never questioned anything.
▪ When Woosnam instructs himself to pull off a particular shot, he truly believes he can make the shot happen.
▪ We do truly believe that Hess wants to go to Britain.
▪ I truly believe he is a literary giant.
▪ Did Mr Djindjic truly believe that Mr Karadzic deserved his support, or was the gesture utterly cynical?
▪ I truly believe that there was a unification there, a representation of the wholeness.
▪ Yet Diana truly believed he was in love with her because of the devoted way he behaved in her presence.
▪ I truly believe that you influenced me for the good, Polly.
feel
▪ Only on top of a horse can Piggott truly feel on top of the world.
▪ You are such a writer, wanting to capture how sad you truly felt.
▪ It was after tonight that she would feel truly married.
▪ That lack of coaching and support is making it even harder for achievement-oriented women to feel truly engaged with their organizations.
▪ She truly felt she had sinned and failed.
▪ And yet feeling truly settled was still a novelty.
▪ In the peaceful rural surroundings of Thorsbury, Tamar felt truly at home.
▪ How does my partner truly feel about the baby?
love
▪ Those who truly love you will want to know the true you in any event.
▪ There are people who truly love sales.
▪ She truly loved the game, and she was good at it.
▪ Jessica still eats Jell-O, for instance, and relishes its goofiness even as she truly loves the way it tastes.
▪ The truth was, he had a complete lack of the equipment demanded for truly loving.
▪ I think you take for granted how much you truly love the sport.
▪ That she truly loved me was not to be doubted.
reflect
▪ He could truly reflect that he had done not only the best, but the only thing possible.
▪ With older children, the issues are more complex and may truly reflect differences in male and female attitudes.
▪ Unfortunately, it was the last Chilton collection to truly reflect his talent.
understand
▪ Quite the reverse, these become the trusted friends that truly understand and can be of real help in time of trouble.
▪ To truly understand the plight of the Jets, consider this slice of trivia.
▪ It did not exorcise demons, for those who truly understand the game of basketball realize that no real demons existed.
want
▪ If we truly want democracy, we need this sort of input.
▪ I also said that I truly wanted the team to stay together.
▪ Now is the time to stop this end-gaining mentality and realize what we truly want in our lives.
▪ Some force deep within truly wants to believe aliens cured that Montana farmer of his pesky hernia problem.
▪ The first thing to do is to ask yourself what you truly want.
▪ Lennox has always truly wanted to fight for the world title and was happy taking the tough route.
▪ If he truly wanted land reform he could have achieved it non-violently during his long 20-year rule.
▪ If they really truly wanted you then they'd have stayed in that boring old cottage you keep going on about.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Yours truly
▪ A comparatively leisurely schedule of Yours Truly still entailed travelling to twenty-one cities in thirty-five weeks.
▪ All high tech and computers and whatnot. Yours truly won't be moving to the new premises.
▪ It is very important so I hope you will come. Yours truly, Hilda Passmore.
▪ Of course it's Yours Truly that's got to dust the whole kit and caboodle!
▪ The man of your dreams has come. Yours truly is handsome, ear-nose-throat specialist, well settled in Connecticut.
▪ There are an awful lot of Luddites out there with computer dyslexia, including Yours Truly.
Yours truly/Yours
▪ A comparatively leisurely schedule of Yours Truly still entailed travelling to twenty-one cities in thirty-five weeks.
▪ All high tech and computers and whatnot. Yours truly won't be moving to the new premises.
▪ It is very important so I hope you will come. Yours truly, Hilda Passmore.
▪ Of course it's Yours Truly that's got to dust the whole kit and caboodle!
▪ The man of your dreams has come. Yours truly is handsome, ear-nose-throat specialist, well settled in Connecticut.
▪ There are an awful lot of Luddites out there with computer dyslexia, including Yours Truly.
really and truly
▪ I really truly love you.
▪ A trade that really and truly helped both teams.
▪ She was really and truly home.
▪ That she'd been really and truly in love and couldn't go on.
▪ What he would really and truly like was to do this new degree course for Bachelor of Civil Law.
▪ Who really and truly and honestly gives a shit?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ For the first time in her life she felt truly happy.
▪ Getting accepted into Yale is truly an accomplishment.
▪ I'm truly sorry. I didn't mean to upset you.
▪ I truly am impressed with your work.
▪ I truly believe he is innocent.
▪ If we truly believe we can win, then we have a very good chance at doing it.
▪ It was a truly embarrassing moment.
▪ No adult twins are truly identical.
▪ She seems truly sorry for what she did.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By then Diana was truly at the end of her tether.
▪ Pacino cuts them together for a truly original version of Shakespeare that could only be realized on film.
▪ Similarly, mimicry of the expressions, stance and actions of a truly violent encounter can represent an intention or threat.
▪ The choice is endless, from the quaintly historic to the truly exotic.
▪ The Curators, with no other concerns in the matter, were truly speaking in the best interests of the children.
▪ There is always something of the arbitrary, because all that can truly stand for a thing is the thing itself.
▪ To this day I believe it truly was less disillusionment and more an embrace of sober realism that moved me to change.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Truly

Truly \Tru"ly\, adv. [From True.]

  1. In a true manner; according to truth; in agreement with fact; as, to state things truly; the facts are truly represented.

    I can not truly say how I came here.
    --Shak.

  2. Exactly; justly; precisely; accurately; as, to estimate truly the weight of evidence.

  3. Sincerely; honestly; really; faithfully; as, to be truly attached to a lover; the citizens are truly loyal to their prince or their country.
    --Burke.

  4. Conformably to law; legally; legitimately.

    His innocent babe [is] truly begotten.
    --Shak.

  5. In fact; in deed; in reality; in truth.

    Beauty is excelled by manly grace And wisdom, which alone is truly fair.
    --Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
truly

Old English treowlice, from treow (see true (adj.)). Similar formation in Dutch treuwelijk, German getreulich, Swedish troligen.

Wiktionary
truly

adv. 1 In accordance with the facts; truthfully, accurately. 2 honestly, genuinely, in fact, really. 3 very.

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WordNet
truly

  1. adv. in accordance with truth or fact or reality; "she was now truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they don't really listen to us" [syn: genuinely, really]

  2. by right; "baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime" [syn: rightfully]

  3. with sincerity; without pretense; "she praised him sincerely for his victory"; "was unfeignedly glad to see his old teacher"; "we are truly sorry for the inconvenience" [syn: sincerely, unfeignedly] [ant: insincerely]

  4. in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers); "in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire"; "really, you shouldn't have done it"; "a truly awful book" [syn: in truth, really]

Wikipedia
Truly

Truly is an American rock band formed in the wake of the grunge era. It featured singer-guitarist Robert Roth, bassist Hiro Yamamoto, and drummer Mark Pickerel. Yamamoto and Pickerel were founding members respectively of Soundgarden and Screaming Trees. While not a commercially successful group like some of their Seattle contemporaries, the band lasted a decade with two studio albums to their name.

Truly (song)

"Truly" is the title of the debut solo single by singer-songwriter Lionel Richie. Resuming where he left off with D-flat major tunes " Sail On" and particularly " Still" when he was lead for the Commodores, Richie wrote the song and co-produced it with James Anthony Carmichael.

Released as the first single from his self-titled debut album in 1982, "Truly" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 on 9 October 1982 and climbed to No. 1 on 27 November – 4 December 1982. It also spent four weeks at No. 1 on the adult contemporary chart and logged nine weeks at No. 2 on the R&B chart. In addition, "Truly" made the Top 10 in United Kingdom, where the song peaked at No. 6. The song won a Grammy Award for Richie in the category Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.

Truly (Delerium song)

"Truly" is the second single from Delerium's album Chimera featuring singer Nerina Pallot.

Just like the rest of the album, this song has a much more pop feel than Delerium's previous work.

Also this single was released with a remix as a radio version. This time with a remix by Wise Buddah. Other remixes were made by Infusion, Brother Brown and Signum.

There was no video made for the single.

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Usage examples of "truly".

But if he shall appear, and not consent to abjure, let him be delivered as a truly impenitent heretic to the secular Court, as was explained in the tenth method.

Zinora is truly denied trade with the Windlorn Isles by hostile aborigines, then its fortunes will greatly decline.

The good priest, accepting that title as truly belonging to me, entreats my pardon for not having addressed me as such.

He had known almost from the time he left her that he would never truly be able to forget Holly, and after less than six months away from her he had ached so intensely for her that he had often woken up in the night with his face wet with tears and the echoes of her name still resounding through his mind as he called despairingly for her.

Not one of them was deceived in the young officer, but, being already acquainted with the adventure, they were all delighted to dine with the hero of the comedy, and treated the handsome officer exactly as if he had truly been a man, but I am bound to confess that the male guests offered the Frenchwoman homages more worthy of her sex.

To a certain extent I was acquainted with the ways of the Colossus which was crushing me under foot, but there are things on earth which one can only truly understand by experience.

Once back in the city of Bel Adad, the truly dangerous part of their quest began.

I cannot refrain from expressing my admiration for the wonderful, I might almost say adorable, being who wants to convince you that you are truly his mistress.

If the Empire were to become truly organized, they would certainly put down the ogrilloi and the human bandits, and kill the dragons and trolls and griffins, possibly the elves and dwarves and all the other things that make Adventuring entertaining in the first place.

The copy then went on to elaborate that we truly believe our product is so superior that other advertising experts should be using us.

But ask yourself if you truly are willing to bet your savings, your job, or your life that Saddam Hussein will not use a nuclear weapon or embark on some new aggression in the belief that his nuclear weapons will deter the United States.

The rival view was that true riches lay in trade, agriculture and industry, where wealth was truly earned and productively used.

Did the Entity truly believe that he would forsake his vow of ahimsa merely upon the threat of death?

Truly they were ahungered, but could never quite lose their waggishness.

Other tissue-salts may be needed to deal with individual symptoms but the above are the most frequently needed remedies for ailments of a truly nervous character.