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  • adverb Obsolete spelling of entirely.
  • adverb Common misspelling of entirely.

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Examples

  • Hence also we may learn, that no repentance can remove this incapacity, but such as intirely changes the nature and disposition of the offender; which in the language of Scripture is called “being born again.”

    A View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion. 1704-1787 1799

  • Hence also we may learn, that no repentance can remove this incapacity, but such as intirely changes the nature and disposition of the offender; which in the language of Scripture is called “being born again.”

    A View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion. 1704-1787 1776

  • “The unfortunate General Braddock,” he said, “was intirely deserted in the waggons with only his servants and a person or two more, & it was some time before they got a party of men to guard him.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • “The unfortunate General Braddock,” he said, “was intirely deserted in the waggons with only his servants and a person or two more, & it was some time before they got a party of men to guard him.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • As soon as the flanking infantry followed the general forward, an officer complained, the wagoneers, “who imagined things would turn out badly,” took the gears from their horses and “galloped intirely away, so that if fortune had turned in our favour, we had not one horse left to draw the train along.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Both had their coats “intirely shot to tatters with musket balls,” according to an officer, and Orme said Washington behaved “the whole time with the greatest courage and resolution.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Both had their coats “intirely shot to tatters with musket balls,” according to an officer, and Orme said Washington behaved “the whole time with the greatest courage and resolution.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • He ended in torment: If you do not come to our assistance now, we are intirely undone, and imagine we shall never meet together again.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • As soon as the flanking infantry followed the general forward, an officer complained, the wagoneers, “who imagined things would turn out badly,” took the gears from their horses and “galloped intirely away, so that if fortune had turned in our favour, we had not one horse left to draw the train along.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Rode by a Return'd Chaise comfortably to London; and found all well except my Charlotte, who, from a fever and inflammation, had intirely lost her sight, and in which state she has remained until this morning; she can now peep, and is getting better.

    Letter 134 2009

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