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▪ I. † ˈreally, adv.1 Obs.
Forms: 4 reali, real(l)ich(e, realych, 4–6 real(l)y, 6 Sc. reallie.
[f. real a.1 + -ly2. Cf. rially.]
Royally.
c1350Will. Palerne 1426 Þe messageres riȝt realy were arayde, for soþe. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) III. 171 He hadde i-reigned nobliche and realliche þritty ȝere. c1400Ywaine & Gaw. 1569 Ful really thai rade about..To justing and to turnament. c15111st Eng. Bk. Amer. (Arb.) Introd. 36/1 Realy wrought with sterres lyke yf it were ye heuen. a1578Lindesay in Pitscottie Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 93 He..callit [him] to the supper and bankitit him werie reallie.
▪ II. really, adv.2|ˈriːəlɪ|
Also 5 rialliche, 6 Sc. realie, 6–7 reallie.
[f. real a.2 + -ly2.]
1. a. In a real manner; in reality; in point of, or as a matter of, fact; actually.
In later use commonly placed immediately in front of the word or phrase on which emphasis is laid.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. lxxxvii. (1869) 49 With inne this bred al the souereyn good is put;..bodiliche and rialliche, presentliche and verreyliche. 1528–37Lett. Suppress. Monast. (Camden) 161 My dysfortune hathe byn..not only with yntellectyon to have thought yt, but exteryally and really I have fulfyllyd the same. 1563Foxe A. & M. 172/1 He held this opinion, that it was not the body of Christe really, the whiche was sacramentally vsed in the church. 1639Bury Wills (Camden) 180, I will that twenty pounds..shalbe paid to the said ffeoffees when they shall really begin the said worke. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. iii. ii. §16 He imagined that which is said to be above as to us, was really the upper part of the world. 1692E. Walker tr. Epictetus' Mor. xxxvii, To have right Notions of the Deities; As that such Beings really are. 1712Addison Spect. No. 315 ⁋9 The Account of such things as have really happened. 1762Goldsm. Nash 21 Frequented only by such as really went for relief. 1798Ferriar Illustr. Sterne, etc. 287 The popular prophets of this country were all really or affectedly mad. 1820Shelley Witch Atl. lxxiii, How the God Apis really was a bull, And nothing more. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. II. 139 It soon appeared that the government was really directed, not at Dublin, but in London. 1886Ld. Esher in Law Rep. 32 Chanc. Div. 26, I do not think that any of the cases that were cited did really prove that assertion.
b. Used to emphasize the truth or correctness of an epithet or statement; hence = positively, indeed.
a1610Healey Cebes (1636) 140 Hee..shall be really blessed, and lift up beyond the pitch of misery. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 70 The Janizaries..seem to be sacred; and really I know no Order of Militia in the World, that is so much respected. 1722De Foe Hist. Plague (1754) 5 This last Bill was really frightful. 1772Test Filial Duty II. 180 He was really very useful, perfectly commode. 1824Hood Whims & Oddities, May-day (1857) 308 A really pretty maiden, and worthy of the honour. 1834R. H. Froude Rem. (1838) I. 378, I really think this illness is being a good thing for me. 1874J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Par. Churches 207 It is really a pity that this is not true.
c. Coupled with truly. In adj. phr. really truly chiefly N. Amer. Children's speech, authentic, genuine.
1742Fielding J. Andrews ii. xiii, The word really and truly signifies no more at this day. 1828Moir Mansie Wauch xx. 302 This was really and truly a terrible business. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iv. I. 435 The king is really and truly a Catholic. 1852Dickens Bleak Ho. II. xv. 195 ‘Have you money for your lodgings?’ ‘Yes sir’, she says, ‘really and truly’.
1908L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xi. 114 They all had puffed sleeves..it was awfully hard there among the others who had really truly puffs. 1909M. Diver Candles in Wind xxxiii. 348 Such a really truly knight! 1911G. S. Porter Harvester xvi. 356 There are fairies! Really truly ones! They have found the remainder of the willow dishes. 1911T. Dreiser Jennie Gerhardt 249 She thinks you are her really truly uncle. 1942Post (Morgantown, W. Va.) 2 May 5/7 The [family] have one of the prize sites with a really, truly beach.
2. Used without syntactical construction:
a. As a term of asseveration or protest.
1602Shakes. Ham. v. ii. 132 Is't not possible to understand in another tongue? You will do't, sir, really. 1728Gay Begg. Op. iii. viii, But really, Mistress Lucy [etc.]. 1819Keats Let. 22 Sept., How fine the air..Really, without joking, chaste weather. 1841De Quincey Homer Wks. 1853 VI. 338 Really no: a dyspeptic demigod it makes one dyspeptic to think of! 1875Jowett Plate (ed. 2) I. 61 Why really, I said, the truth is that I do not know.
b. Interrogatively.
c1815Sir D. Wilkie in Pinnington Life, etc. (1900) 75 Wilkie looked, smiled, and in the most unconscious manner said, ‘Rea-al-ly!’ 1893Scribner's Mag. June 787/1 She exclaimed, ‘Really? It is really true?’
†3. Sincerely, honestly, truly. Obs.—1
1650T. B[ayley] Worcester's Apoph. 79, I protest my Lord, I speak, said Redman, really; he is coming.
†4. In the usual course of things, naturally.
1651Culpepper Astrol. Judgem. Dis. (1658) 89 Diseases..whether they come really, or by accident, as fractures.
†5. Math. Used with reference to an equation having real roots. Obs.
1706W. Jones Syn. Palmar. Math. 128 In every Prepared Equation Really constituted, which has..all its Terms.
Add:[2.] c. iron. Expressing disbelief.
1915Chesterton Antichrist in Poems 88 Do they read it all in Hansard With a crib to read it with—‘Welsh Tithes: Dr. Clifford Answered.’ Really, Smith? 1979Washington Post 29 May b1/2 Really... Like somebody says ‘War is hell,’ or ‘You can't fight city hall,’ and you say ‘really’. Very flat, fatalistic, passive. Really. |