Wholly Definition

hōlē, hōllē
adverb
To the whole amount or extent; totally; entirely.
Webster's New World
Exclusively; solely.
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Origin of Wholly

  • From the Middle English word holliche. See also whole and -ly.

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Wholly Sentence Examples

  • The effort, while commendable, was not wholly suc­cessful.

  • We are not wholly involved in Nature.

  • The sense he wasn't wholly of this world returned.

  • But during the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out.

  • But Howie's abilities were wholly dependent on Quinn and his apparatus.

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