truly : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: truly	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
truly 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" Synonym(s): truly, genuinely, really by right; "baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime" Synonym(s): rightfully, truly 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" Synonym(s): sincerely, unfeignedly, truly Antonym(s): insincerely 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" Synonym(s): in truth, really, truly
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.