Associations to the word «Truly»

Wiktionary

TRULY, adverb. In accordance with the facts; truthfully, accurately.
TRULY, adverb. Honestly, genuinely, in fact, really.
TRULY, adverb. Very.

Dictionary definition

TRULY, adverb. In accordance with truth or fact or reality; "she was now truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they don't really listen to us".
TRULY, adverb. By right; "baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime".
TRULY, adverb. 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".
TRULY, adverb. 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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats