verily

«verily» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: truly — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

truly

part of speech

adverb

meaning for a pupil

Truly or really; used to show that you mean what you say. tree →

how it differs from today

Old-fashioned; today we say truly or really.

examples

• And the LORD said: 'Verily, the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and, verily, their sin is exceeding grievous. (Torah GEN.18.20, JPS 1917) tree →
• Verily, that is the way of the world. (Grimms' Fairy Tales) tree →
• And he said: 'Verily, these seven ewe-lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.' (Torah GEN.21.30, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

verily

tests

manual 10.2; corpora 15 (Torah 5, tales 10, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.7 (Torah alone 11.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah: 'Verily our lord king David hath made Solomon king.
• Verily Thou art a God that hidest Thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.
• So I fed the flock of slaughter, verily the poor of the flock.
• But verily God hath heard; He hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
• All nations compass me about; verily, in the name of the LORD I will cut them off.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «verily» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.