reälly

See also: really, real-ly, and re-ally

English

Adverb

reälly (comparative more reälly, superlative most reälly)

  1. (nonstandard) Rare spelling of really.
    • 1795, William Mitford, “Chapter II.”, in The History of Greece, 3rd edition, volume I, London: T. Cadell, Section I., page 123:
      Views of intereſt, as we learn from Homer, often induced men of abilities and experience reälly ſuperior, to pretend to ſuch divine intercourſe.
    • 1860, Carmina Et Epigrammata In Aula Collegiata Apud Westmonasterienses, Coram Electoribus Festis Ter-Centenariis Recitata, Prid. Id. Mai., page 9:
      Would we might vote with equal ease, / As think what reälly we please! / Oh! for the placid ballot-box, / When at our ribs our conscience knocks! / […]  / [Oratore, H. B. Chapman.
    • 1895, William John Courthope, A History of English Poetry, volume 3, published 1962, page 345:
      We grow at last by custom to believe / That reälly we live; / Whilst all these shadows, that for things we take, / Are but the empty dreams which in Death’s sleep we make; / / and again, addressing Life and Fame:— […]

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