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adverb

Wholly adv.

In a whole or complete manner; entirely; completely; perfectly. "Nor wholly overcome, nor wholly yield."

To the exclusion of other things; totally; fully. "They employed themselves wholly in domestic life."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... that to corrupt a few people among you does no good at all, because the, frequent change of magistracies takes away the means of gaining over many of them at the same time, capable by a long duration of their power to conduct an intrigue against the commonwealth, this fear must appear wholly vain." ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... Bakuba tribe of Abyssinia was almost wholly Pagan as the natives believed fully in witchcraft, sorcery, myths and superstitions. The witch doctor held absolute sway over the members of the tribe and when his reputation as a giver of rain, bountiful crops or success in the chase was at stake the tribes ...

— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States • Various

... is weighed in one scale, against the fiend, "and a great long worm with him," in the other; the worm of conscience, in fact. But the work has not been included in this volume, lest it should prove wholly unprofitable to a generation which if it be not readily disturbed by sin, is easily and quickly shocked by crude suggestions concerning its possible consequences and reward. They will find enough, perhaps, in ...

— The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises • Richard Rolle of Hampole

... my own devotion to Dickens, it may be stated as chiefly, though not wholly, admiration of his humour, his dramatic tragedy, and his watchfulness over inanimate things and landscape. Passages of his books that are ranged otherwise than under those characters often leave me out of the range of their appeal or else definitely offend me. And this is not for ...

— Hearts of Controversy • Alice Meynell

... Christianity was not however based wholly on a prejudice of feeling. He was a man cultivated in all the learning of his age, and of a more generous temper than Celsus, and seems to have exercised much critical sagacity in the investigation of the claims of Christianity. About the year 270, while in retirement in Sicily, he ...

— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar

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