Library / English Dictionary

VERILY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

In truth; certainly

Example:

trust in the Lord...and verily thou shalt be fed

Classified under:

Adverbs

Domain usage:

archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Then take my word for it,—I am not a villain: you are not to suppose that—not to attribute to me any such bad eminence; but, owing, I verily believe, rather to circumstances than to my natural bent, I am a trite commonplace sinner, hackneyed in all the poor petty dissipations with which the rich and worthless try to put on life.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Now," he continued, again addressing me, "I have received the pilgrim—a disguised deity, as I verily believe. Already it has done me good: my heart was a sort of charnel; it will now be a shrine."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)