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IN TRUTH
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers)
Example:
a truly awful book
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Domain usage:
intensifier; intensive (a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies)
Context examples:
He looked down at her, wondering if she remembered the time, but Jo was smiling to herself, as if in truth her troubles had all vanished at his coming.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Weedon Scott was in truth this thumb.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
But suddenly remembering that in truth I came for no other purpose, I held my peace in confusion, and felt my face burn.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He did all he could to soothe her, and she at last seemed to be appeased; but she was not so in truth, and was only thinking how she should punish him.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Captain Harville, who had in truth been hearing none of it, now left his seat, and moved to a window, and Anne seeming to watch him, though it was from thorough absence of mind, became gradually sensible that he was inviting her to join him where he stood.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
And as for objects of interest, objects for the affections, which is in truth the great point of inferiority, the want of which is really the great evil to be avoided in not marrying, I shall be very well off, with all the children of a sister I love so much, to care about.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
But I have learned in my miserable life, Charles, that there is a power which fashions things for us, though we may strive to thwart it, and that we are in truth driven by an unseen current towards a certain goal, however much we may deceive ourselves into thinking that it is our own sails and oars which are speeding us upon our way.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Standing on the rug between us, with his slight, tall figure, his sharp features, thoughtful face, and curling hair prematurely tinged with grey, he seemed to represent that not too common type, a nobleman who is in truth noble.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In truth I must acknowledge that, with all the disadvantages of this humble parsonage, I should not think anyone abiding in it an object of compassion, while they are sharers of our intimacy at Rosings.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
