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MERELY

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 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

And nothing more

Example:

hopes that last but a moment

Synonyms:

but; just; merely; only; simply

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

mere (apart from anything else; without additions or modifications)

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 Context examples: 

It seems to me that she might, by merely sitting quietly at his side, saying little and looking less, get nigher his heart.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He became what he ought to be: useful to his father, steady and quiet, and not living merely for himself.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The groove merely changed its direction.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He was merely collecting himself to speak very plainly.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He was not a fame-monger, but merely one of God's mad lovers.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

These reproductive cells were not merely more plentiful in ABVD patients.

(Chemotherapy cocktail may cause adult women to grow new egg cells, Wikinews)

I would advise you merely to put on whatever of your clothes is superior to the rest—there is no occasion for anything more.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

"An unduly long summer," would have been his thought had he thought about it; as it was, he merely missed the snow in a vague, subconscious way.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Or is she merely a prisoner?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But thus far, it has been unclear whether the effect is merely a symptom of cancer, or a cause.

(Scientists Reveal The Relationship Between Sugar, Cancer, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)