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adverb

Merely adv.

Purely; unmixedly; absolutely. "Ulysses was to force forth his access, Though merely naked."

Not otherwise than; simply; barely; only. "Prize not your life for other ends Than merely to oblige your friends."

Synonyms: Solely; simply; purely; barely; scarcely.

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Etymology of 'Merely'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Merely" Quotes from Famous Books

... sick of the Old Man. You mark my words, dear boy: there will be a great revolt against him before many months have passed. I see it working. I find it in the House, in the clubs, in the drawing-rooms; and I don't speak merely as my wishes ...

— Name and Fame - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant

... rescue. Altogether they were divided into two groups, one under the command of Major Fequant, the other under that of Captain Brocard, appointed chief of battalion. It becomes impossible to enumerate all Guynemer's victories, and we can merely emphasize the days on which he surpassed himself. September 28 was a remarkable day, on which he brought down two enemies and had a fall from a height of 3000 meters. Little Paul Bailly would hardly have believed that; he would have said it ...

— Georges Guynemer - Knight of the Air • Henry Bordeaux

... convex, smooth or merely downy, dark red, fading when old, often marked with yellow; flesh yellow, slowly ...

— The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise - Its Habitat and its Time of Growth • M. E. Hard

... sinister and repellent name! His views on this general subject were merely those common to his communion and his environment. He took it for granted, for example, that in the large cities most of the poverty and all the drunkenness, crime, and political corruption were due to the perverse qualities of this foreign people—qualities accentuated ...

— The Damnation of Theron Ware • Harold Frederic

... soon led amongst different scenes. By merely turning to the left we came upon a flat, in which another water- course, similar to that we had been tracing (Balmy Creek), came from the west, apparently out of that inaccessible country, across which I had previously looked in vain for a passage. Several other ...

— Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia • Thomas Mitchell

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