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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Re-ally \Re"-al*ly"\, v. t. [Pref. re- + ally, v. t.]
To bring together again to compose or form anew. --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Really \Re"al*ly`\, adv
Royally. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Really \Re"al*ly\, adv
In a real manner; with or in reality; actually; in truth.
Whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.
--Swift.
Note: Really is often used familiarly as a slight
corroboration of an opinion or a declaration.
Why, really, sixty-five is somewhat old --Young.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
really
adv 1: 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: {truly}, {genuinely}]
2: in actual fact "to be nominally but not actually
independent"; "no one actually saw the shark"; "large
meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt" [syn: {actually}]
3: (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"; (`forsooth' is archaic and now usually used to
express disbelief) [syn: {in truth}, {truly}, {forsooth}]
4: intensifiers; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well";
"a really enjoyable evening"; (`real' is sometimes used
informally for `really' as in "I'm real sorry about it";
`rattling' is informal as in "a rattling good yarn") [syn:
{very}, {real}, {rattling}]
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
REALLY, adv Apparently.
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