reälly

comparative more reälly · superlative most reälly

1. nonstandard(obsolete) Rare spelling of really.

   Views of intereſt, as we learn from Homer, often induced men of abilities and experience reälly ſuperior, to pretend to ſuch divine intercourſe.

   1795, William Mitford, “Chapter II.”, in The History of Greece, 3rd edition, volume I, London: T. Cadell, Section I., page 123

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   Would we might vote with equal ease, / As think what reälly we please! / Oh! for the placid ballot-box, / When at our ribs our conscience knocks! / […] / [Oratore, H. B. Chapman.

   1860, Carmina Et Epigrammata In Aula Collegiata Apud Westmonasterienses, Coram Electoribus Festis Ter-Centenariis Recitata, Prid. Id. Mai., page 9

   We grow at last by custom to believe / That reälly we live; / Whilst all these shadows, that for things we take, / Are but the empty dreams which in Death’s sleep we make; / / and again, addressing Life and Fame:—[…]

   1895, William John Courthope, A History of English Poetry, volume 3, published 1962, page 345