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IN TRUTH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does in truth mean?
• IN TRUTH (adverb)
The adverb IN TRUTH has 1 sense:
1. in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers)
Familiarity information: IN TRUTH used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers)
Synonyms:
Context example:
a truly awful book
Domain usage:
intensifier; intensive (a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies)
Context examples
In truth, it had been so long since I had received sympathy that I was softened, and I became then, and gladly, her willing slave.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
In truth, she was far from robust, and the need of her body and mind was for strength.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
In truth I blush that any one so weak and so unworthy as I should try to teach another that which he finds it so passing hard to follow himself.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But why would you not let me near you, since there was in truth no infection?
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is indeed a tale so strange that I should fear you would not credit it were there not something in truth which, however wonderful, forces conviction.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
In truth, eclipses are like new and full moons on steroids.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
But, in truth, she did not dare to strike Dorothy, because of the mark upon her forehead.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
But if she die in truth, then all cease; the tiny wounds of the throats disappear, and they go back to their plays unknowing ever of what has been.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
We are, in truth, as far from any human aid as if we were in the moon.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Jane, you must be reasonable, or in truth I shall again become frantic.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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