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Truly vs Faithfully - What's the difference?

truly | faithfully |

As adverbs the difference between truly and faithfully

is that truly is in accordance with the facts; truthfully, accurately while faithfully is in a faithful manner.

truly

English

Adverb

(en-adv)
  • In accordance with the facts; truthfully, accurately.
  • * 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.27:
  • He adds, very truly , that what was fatal to such philosophies as his was not Christianity but the Copernican theory.
  • Honestly, genuinely, in fact, really.
  • That is truly all I know.
    Truly , that is all I know.
  • Very.
  • You are truly silly.

    Derived terms

    * well and truly

    faithfully

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a faithful manner.
  • The CD reproduces music faithfully.
    I have been faithfully married for the past twenty years.
  • (US) A conventional formula for ending a letter, used when the salutation addresses the person for whom the letter is intended using an honorific.
  • Synonyms

    * (formula for ending correspondence) yours faithfully (UK)

    Antonyms

    * unfaithfully

    Derived terms

    * yours faithfully

    See also

    * sincerely * truly