Adverb

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Only, simply, merely.

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, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Philander went into the next room, which was just a lean-to hitched on to the end of the shanty, and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author= Sam Leith

, volume=189, issue=1, page=37, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where the profound meets the profane , passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.}}

(sentence adverb) (Used to reduce the force of an imperative); simply.

(speech act) (Used to convey a less serious or formal tone)

(speech act) (Used to show humility).

(degree) absolutely, positively

Moments ago, recently.

* , chapter=8

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Philander went into the next room

By a narrow margin; closely; nearly.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=14 citation , passage=Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall.  Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.}}

Exactly, perfectly.

Precisely.

* (John Dryden)

And having just enough, not covet more.

* Sir Philip Sidney

The god Pan guided my hand just to the heart of the beast.

* (William Shakespeare)

To-night, at Herne's oak, just 'twixt twelve and one.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}