As adverbs the difference between merely and eventually
is that
merely is (obsolete) wholly, entirely while
eventually is in the end.
merely English
Adverb
( -)
(obsolete) Wholly, entirely.
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
- It is not forgot, since the acute and distinct Arminius'' was perverted meerly by the perusing of a namelesse discourse writt'n at ''Delf , which at first he took in hand to confute.
(focus) Without any other reason etc.; only, just, and nothing more.
Statistics
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eventually English
Adverb
( -)
In the end.
* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage ,
- It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
(mathematics, of a sequence) For some tail.
Synonyms
* at last
* finally
* yet
* ultimately
* in the end
See also
* frequently
See also
* sooner or later
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