Meanings
comparative more veritably · superlative most veritably
- In a veritable manner; in a way that truly and accurately describes something.
A book with veritably no shading or subtlety
1988 April 9, Elizabeth Pincus, “So Precious A Love”, in Gay Community News, page 71 more example
My comfort was, that it happened a long time ago, and that he had doubtless been transported a long way off, and that he was dead to me, and might be veritably dead into the bargain.
1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XIX, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 315Synonyms: genuinely
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adverbIn a veritable manner; in a way that truly and accurately describes something.
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Catalan veritablement
- veritablementin a veritable manner
French véritablement
- véritablementin a veritable manner
Spanish verdaderamente
- verdaderamentein a veritable manner
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