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| Grammar : Adv |
| Spell : hoh-lee, hohl-lee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈhoʊ li, ˈhoʊl li |
Definition of wholly
Origin :- c.1300, probably from Old English *hallice; see whole + -ly (2).
- adv completely, entirely
- adv exclusively
- I got to trust you wholly in these matters, and I know I can do it, too.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Still she was a girl; and no girl could be wholly without importance on such a day.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Robert, though not a professional fisherman, was not wholly inexperienced.
- Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
- You, my dear, are happy—May you always be so—and then I can never be wholly miserable.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- One's attention was not called to it otherwise than as a wholly inevitable state.
- Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
- That this is wholly of recent growth, is not, of course, to be inferred.
- Extract from : « De Libris: Prose and Verse » by Austin Dobson
- But the effort on the secretary's part was wholly without success.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- Yet, thanks to our good chancellor, I am not wholly unlettered.
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- He marveled dully over the sensation—it was wholly new to him.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- This was the wholly ambiguous communication that Crane had found under his door.
- Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
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