[ UK /vˈɛɹɪli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in truth; certainly
    I verily think so
    trust in the Lord...and verily thou shalt be fed
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How To Use verily In A Sentence

  • Glory to our Lord! Verily we have been doing wrong!
  • Endure then with patience that which thou sufferest, for verily thou deservest all that betideth thee! — The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • And if it be my Alpha and Omega that everything heavy shall become light, everybody a dancer, and every spirit a bird: and verily, that is my Alpha and Omega! Thus Spake Zarathustra
  • It behoved them not to tarry on that account, for verily the value of the two hundred loads is only some seven thousand dinars. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Verily, we must be living in a golden age of journalism if the number of prize-winning rags and hacks is anything to go by.
  • Verily, as he had done, so did God apay him, which is just Judge over all the earth. In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers
  • The affidavit was signed by a number of men who claimed they had known Hamilton for years, stating, “that for truth and veracity we have never heard his word questioned and that we do verily believe his statement to be true and correct.” Space Ships of the Visitors
  • So he bore with his injurious usage, saying to himself, Verily insolence and evil-speaking are causes of perdition and cast into confusion, and it is said, ‘The insolent is shent and the ignorant doth repent; and whose feareth, to him safety is sent’: moderation marketh the noble and gentle manners are of gains the grandest. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
  • If we keep this mighty nation one and inseparable, we shall have answered it forever; if not, why then those who revile man as vile and irreclaimably degraded may raise their pæans of triumph; the black spectres of antique tyrants may clap their hands gleefully in the land of accursed shadows, and hell hold high carnival, for, verily, it would seem as if they had triumphed, and that hope were a lie. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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