Purely vs Truly - What's the difference?
purely | truly |
* 1962 , , Flush Times :
Solely; exclusively; merely, simply.
* 2005 , Owen Bowcott, The Guardian , 8 Apr 2005:
* 2007 , ‘(Helen Brooks)’, His Christmas Bride :
*:"But this meal tonight is not a date, not in the traditional sense. It's purely platonic, I assure you."
Chastely, innocently; in a sinless manner, without fault.
* 1623 , (William Shakespeare), Troilus and Cressida , First Folio, IV.7:
* 1823 , (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), Table Talk :
In accordance with the facts; truthfully, accurately.
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.27:
Honestly, genuinely, in fact, really.
Very.
As adverbs the difference between purely and truly
is that purely is wholly; really, completely while truly is in accordance with the facts; truthfully, accurately.purely
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- I am fascinated by the entire scene, I purely am.
- The IRA should "lead by example" and "unilaterally" abandon paramilitary violence and adopt a purely political strategy, a leading Sinn Féin MP urged yesterday.
- faith and troth, / Strain'd purely from all hollow bias drawing: / Bids thee with most diuine integritie, / From heart of very heart, great Hector welcome.
- By some means or other the water flows purely , and separated from the filth, in a deeper and narrower course on one side of the rock, and the refuse of the dirt and troubled water goes off on the other in a broader current [...].
truly
English
Adverb
(en-adv)- He adds, very truly , that what was fatal to such philosophies as his was not Christianity but the Copernican theory.
- That is truly all I know.
- Truly , that is all I know.
- You are truly silly.