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Wholly vs Entierly - What's the difference?

wholly | entierly |

As adverbs the difference between wholly and entierly

is that wholly is completely and entirely; to the fullest extent while entierly is .

wholly

English

Alternative forms

* wholy (obsolete)

Adverb

(-)
  • Completely and entirely; to the fullest extent.
  • *
  • *:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 19, author=Kerry Brown, work=The Guardian
  • , title= Kim Jong-il obituary , passage=With the descent of the cold war, relations between the two countries (for this is, to all intents and purposes, what they became after the end of the war) were almost completely broken off, with whole families split for the ensuing decades, some for ever. This event and its after-effects, along with the war against the Japanese in the 1940s, was to cast a long shadow over the years ahead, and led to the creation of the wholly unprecedented worship of Kim Il-sung, and his elevation to almost God-like status. It was also to create the system in which his son was to occupy almost as impossibly elevated a position.}}
  • Exclusively and solely.
  • Synonyms

    * completely * totally * See also

    Antonyms

    * (completely) partly

    entierly

    English

    Adverb

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  • * 1774 , Charles P. quoted in Publications of the Scottish History Society , page #387:
  • Lord John contradicts Mr. Murray entierly as to what he ses about the Regiment, at the same time he gives Murray the best caracter in the world, saying that anything he ces I may depend upon it to be true, Note bene , tho Lord John nose I have had fresh accounts from Middlebury, he does not suspect it was Murray, tho’ he immagins I may have seen him, for he has none of his being in the neibourod.