adverb
- In accordance with truth or fact or reality.
- usage: "she was now truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they don't really listen to us"
- By right.
- usage: "baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime"
- synonyms: rightfully
- With sincerity; without pretense.
- usage: "she praised him sincerely for his victory"; "was unfeignedly glad to see his old teacher"; "we are truly sorry for the inconvenience"
- synonyms: sincerely, unfeignedly
- In fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers. )
- usage: "in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire"; "really, you shouldn't have done it"; "a truly awful book"
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