wholly

[Whol·ly]

Wholly is an adverb that means "entirely." If a story is wholly inaccurate, no part of it is true.

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In a whole or complete manner; entirely; completely; perfectly.

Adverb
to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole'' is often used informally for `wholly''); "he was wholly convinced"; "entirely satisfied with the meal"; "it was completely different from what we expected"; "was completely at fault"; "a total


adv.
In a whole or complete manner; entirely; completely; perfectly.

adv.
To the exclusion of other things; totally; fully.


Wholly

Whol"ly , adv. 1. In a whole or complete manner; entirely; completely; perfectly.
Nor wholly overcome, nor wholly yield.
2. To the exclusion of other things; totally; fully.
They employed themselves wholly in domestic life.

In a whole or complete manner; entirely; completely; perfectly.

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Usage Examples

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.

The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.

Nobody under the sun was like Madonna. She was positive and clear and wholly dedicated to achieving everything that she's achieved.

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

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