wholly

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In such matters we differ wholly from the Greeks Indeed the very persistence of a nobility was in itself a favorable factor in establishing a better position for women.

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  1. adverb Completely; entirely: "The old American purposes are still wholly relevant” (John F. Kennedy).
  2. adverb Exclusively; solely.

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  • PROLOGUE Lest any of you wonder, why the Bard To an old actor hath assign'd the part Sustain'd of old by young performers; that I'll first explain: then say what brings To-day, a whole play, wholly from the Greek, We mean to represent:--The Self-Tormentor: Wrought from a single to a double plot Now therefore that our comedy is new, And what it is, I've shown: who wrote it too, And whose in Greek it is, were I not sure Most of you knew already, would I tell. —  The Comedies of Terence
  • It was composed wholly from the Greek of Menander. —  The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes
  • It is wholly from the Greek, {being} the Epidicazomenos of Apollodorus. —  The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes
  • Consider yourself, wholly, the scar of a nose, and be off with yourself Being of a forgiving nature, or else from emotion not daring to trust his voice, the man silently, but not without some precipitancy, withdrew Strange," said the auburn-haired gentleman, returning to his friend, "the money was good money Aye, and where your fine knavery now? —  The Confidence-Man
  • A woman, having passed noiselessly from the cabin, stood in the gravelly pathway looking upon the girl with an expression wholly indefinable. —  Second Book of Tales
 

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  1. With unorig. w, as in whole; properly holely or holly, from Middle English holely, hoolli, holly, holli, holliche; from whole + -ly.
 

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