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Sheerly

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Adverb
  1. 1
    Absolutely; purely; quite.

    "On a sheerly technical plane, the projections used for the backgrounds were very effective, particularly in the third act, where a sunset faded most convincingly."

  2. 2
    At a very steep angle; precipitously.

    "The pit dropped sheerly from my feet, but a little way along, the rubbish afforded a practicable slope to the summit of the ruins."

  3. 3
    At once. obsolete

Etymology

From Middle English schyrly, equivalent to sheer + -ly.

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