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MERELY

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merely adverb

1. simplu, numai; pur (şi simplu);

merely a word numai / doar un cuvânt;

not merely nu numai;

not merely ... but also numai... dar / ci şi;

he merely smiled (el) se mulţumi să zâmbească;

I merely observed that m-am mulţumit să remarc că;

I said it merely as e joke am spus-o numai în glumă;

I have come merely to see you am venit numai să te văd.

2. (înv.) pe de-a-ntregul, în întregime, cu totul.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

But I have never fixed on June or any other month—merely looked forward to the summer in general.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

I merely intend to make myself entrancingly agreeable to every one I know, and to keep them in your corner as long as possible.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Anne avoided a direct reply, but it was just the circumstance which she considered as not merely unnecessary to be communicated, but as what ought to be suppressed.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

I responded that it was merely a fancy head, and hurried it beneath the other sheets.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

There was one person, however, in the house, whom he could not leave to learn his sentiments merely through his conduct.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

He merely added that he should not write again till he had something of importance to mention.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

The god merely held near to his nose a piece of meat.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

But he merely asked me what I thought of her.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I read merely to understand their meaning, and they well repaid my labours.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It came from town, and is merely a letter of business.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

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