Meaning & use
verily
Truly, certainly; used in older or formal English to emphasize that a statement is true.
See it in a sentence
Verily, I say unto you, the harvest this year will be greater than the last.
He wrote, half joking, that verily the coffee here was the worst he had tasted.
A note on using this word
Now archaic or deliberately old-fashioned in tone; rarely used in ordinary modern speech.
Words with a similar meaning
trulyindeed
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