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truly
truly W3 /ˈtruːli/ adverb
 Word Family: adverb: truly, truthfullyuntruthfully, true; noun: truthuntruth, truthfulness; adjective: trueuntrue, truthfuluntruthful
1. [+ adjective/adverb] used to emphasize that the way you are describing something is really true
   SYN  really:
    His work is truly original.
    Fawcett was a truly remarkable man.
    a truly great work of medieval literature
2. sincerely:
    I am truly sorry.
    She truly believed he was innocent.
    I can truly say I’ve never enjoyed myself so much.
3. in an exact or correct way:
    Is it a truly representative sample?
4. well and truly especially spoken completely:
    We were well and truly beaten.
    The party was well and truly over.
5. really and truly British English spoken used to emphasize that something is definitely or completely true:
    I couldn’t believe we were really and truly going at last.
6. yours truly
  a. used at the end of a letter, before the signature
  b. informal used humorously to mean yourself:
    So, yours truly was left to clean up.