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  1. adverb In a precise manner.
  2. adverb Used as an intensive: Inferior equipment was precisely the reason some hikers refused to continue the climb.

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  • At 10.55, precisely, they will start for the lines, crossing at an approximate altitude of sixteen hundred metres, each patrol making in a direct line for the balloon assigned to it. —  High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France
  • She replied that if Washington society were so bad as this, she should have gained all she wanted, for it would be a pleasure to return,--precisely the feeling she longed for. —  Democracy, an American novel
  • "And what, precisely, might you mean by the 9.43 I mean, precisely, the train which leaves here for the city at seventeen minutes to ten One of your usual mistakes," I replied. —  Eliza
  • And this precisely is the difference between a native growth of Christian principle and the moral copy of it. —  Natural Law in the Spiritual World
  • This precisely, and on perfectly natural principles, is what he must be. —  Natural Law in the Spiritual World
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  1. from Middle English *precisly, percysly; from precise + -ly.
 

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