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SINCERELY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Written formula for ending a letter

Synonyms:

sincerely; sincerely yours

Classified under:

Adverbs

Sense 2

Meaning:

With sincerity; without pretense

Example:

we are truly sorry for the inconvenience

Synonyms:

sincerely; truly; unfeignedly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Antonym:

insincerely (without sincerity)

Pertainym:

sincere (open and genuine; not deceitful)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I'm sorry, but I know you are too sincerely interested in the cause to mind a little personal disappointment, and you shall have another table if you like.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But I do sincerely take a great, a very great interest in that young man; and if I am taken away, Utterson, I wish you to promise me that you will bear with him and get his rights for him.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A minute later he came in and said:—It was an idiotic thing of me to do, and I ask your pardon, Mrs. Harker, most sincerely; I fear I must have frightened you terribly.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Poor Edward! I feel for him sincerely.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Very sincerely did Emma wish to do so; but it was not immediately in her power.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

But now, sincerely, do not you find the place altogether worse than you expected?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Which I sincerely felt, and which indeed it was.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I am sincerely grieved for him and Mrs. F., but no one can throw any blame on them.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I am now going to claim the protection of some friends, whom I sincerely love, and of whose favour I have some hopes.’

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Say again you will be my brother: when you uttered the words I was satisfied, happy; repeat them, if you can, repeat them sincerely.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)