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Merely vs Eventually - What's the difference?

merely | eventually |

As adverbs the difference between merely and eventually

is that merely is (obsolete) wholly, entirely while eventually is in the end.

merely

English

Adverb

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  • (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