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Very vs Endly - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between very and endly

is that very is true, real, actual while endly is (rare) final; of or pertaining to the end; conclusive.

As adverbs the difference between very and endly

is that very is to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly while endly is finally; at last.

very

English

(wikipedia very)

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • True, real, actual.
  • :
  • *Bible, (w) xxvii. 21
  • *:whether thou be my very son Esau or not
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness.
  • *(Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
  • *:I looked on the consideration of public service or public ornament to be real and very justice.
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  • *:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The country’s first black president, and its first president to reach adulthood after the Vietnam War and Watergate, Mr. Obama seemed like a digital-age leader who could at last dislodge the stalemate between those who clung to the government of the Great Society, on the one hand, and those who disdained the very idea of government, on the other.}}
  • The same; identical.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Molly the dairymaid came a little way from the rickyard, and said she would pluck the pigeon that very night after work. She was always ready to do anything for us boys; and we could never quite make out why they scolded her so for an idle hussy indoors. It seemed so unjust. Looking back, I recollect she had very beautiful brown eyes.
  • With limiting effect: mere.
  • *, I.40:
  • *:We have many examples in our daies, yea in very children, of such as for feare of some slight incommoditie have yeelded unto death.

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    Adverb

    (-)
  • To a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
  • :
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  • *:Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean. ¶ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
  • *, chapter=13
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
  • True, truly.
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    • Usage notes

    * When used in their senses as degree adverbs, "very" and "too" never modify verbs.

    Synonyms

    * (to a great extent) ever so, (l) (dialectal), (l) (archaic), (l) (dialectal)

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    endly

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (rare) Final; of or pertaining to the end; conclusive.
  • * 2007 , Jideofor Aluka, Trickles of a Time :
    • Do not so sink to endly / In fret 'will my tale be heard' [...]
  • *1972 , Igbo market literature - Volume 2 - Page 238:
    • The stretch of wilful obtuse to go in marriage leads a guiding knowledge of man in achieving an endly reach of it [...]
  • * 1903 , Richard Hakluyt, The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques & discoveries of the English :
    • Of unitie, shewing of our keeping of the sea: with an endly or finall processe of peace by authoritie.
  • * 1898 , Lemon, Mayhew, Taylor, Brooks, Burnand, Seaman, Punch, Volumes 114-115 :
    • I pull me up, he push, and endly am i [sic] on one Foot on the little Waggonstep.
  • (rare) Extreme; excessive.

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    Adverb

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  • Finally; at last.
  • * 1998 , Peter Sloot, Marian Bubak, Bob Hertzberger, High-performance computing and networking :
    • This allows a more flexible resource utilization and better performance: any process can access its data wherever it is, a reduced migration cost can be obtained by the transfer of a minimal part of the process context (the data partially remaining where it is), endly the remote access cost is minimized thanks to the attraction between data and execution context.
  • * 1994 , Zbigniew Ra?, Maria Zemankova, Methodologies for intelligent systems :
    • Endly , some implementation aspects are presented.
  • * 1988 , Christophe Bonnard, Landslides :
    • Endly the reverse model still means water infiltration and erosion control, at least in spring when the daily resultant is a water table lowering.
  • * 1902 , Harry Leon Wilson, The Spenders a Tale of the Third Generation :
    • And, endly , mark our tailed arborean ancestors, trained to the wearing of garments and a single eye-glass.
  • * 1833 , Luke Howard, The climate of London: deduced from meteorological observations... :
    • The rains, which are still falling, have endly allayed this evil...
  • (rare) Extremely; very.

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