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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/V/verily/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/V/verily/#x1)
- Verily, that is the way of the world. (Grimms' Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/V/verily/#x2)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/V/verily/#x3)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.45/)
- [Verily Thou art a God that hidest Thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1017/)
- [So I fed the flock of slaughter, verily the poor of the flock.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.161/)
- [But verily God hath heard; He hath attended to the voice of my prayer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1078/)
- [All nations compass me about; verily, in the name of the LORD I will cut them off.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2142/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «verily» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/V/verily/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.