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Definition of Literally
1. Adverb. In a literal sense. "He said so literally"
2. Adverb. (intensifier before a figurative expression) without exaggeration. "Our eyes were literally pinned to TV during the Gulf War"
Definition of Literally
1. adv. According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh.
Definition of Literally
1. Adverb. (context: speech act) word for word; not figuratively; not as an idiom or metaphor ¹
2. Adverb. (context: degree proscribed) ''used non-literally as an intensifier for figurative statements'': virtually (often considered incorrect; see usage notes) ¹
3. Adverb. (British colloquial) ''Used as a generic downtoner'': just, merely. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Literally
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Literally
Literary usage of Literally
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Critique of Pure Reasonby Immanuel Kant, J. M. D. Meiklejohn by Immanuel Kant, J. M. D. Meiklejohn (1878)
"literally Translated. Horace. literally Translated, by SMART. ... literally
Translated, with Notes, by HT RIUT, BA In 2 vols. Pliny's H atural History. ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1858)
"1. fhe Odes and Episodes of Horace, translated literally By Henry George Robinson.
1844, 1855. o. Ttie Odes of Horace, translated into ..."
3. Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana (1897)
"This was literally bidding " good night " to my native land. CHAPTER II. THE first
day we passed at sea was the Sabbath. As we were just from port, ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In his " Legatio pro christiania", xii, 11, Athenagoras (117) quotes almost
literally sentences taken from the Sermon on the Mount (Matt., v, 44). ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1888)
"Papiga omn- kaki (' toad ') is literally ' the rough frog. ... ('woodpecker')
means literally ' the pecker.' At Scugog, English is fast superseding the ..."
6. Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. by Thomas Paine (1791)
"... that it will foon not be literally believed ; and that man will be the happier
and better for overcoming the force of prejudice about .it. ..."
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