Antonyms for verily
ˈvɛr ə liver·i·ly

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1. verilyadverb

   truly, doubtlessly, in truth

   Synonyms:
   soothly, truly

2. verilyadverb

   confidently, certainly

   Synonyms:
   wis, certainly, confidently

Princeton's WordNet

1. verilyadverb

   in truth; certainly

   "I verily think so"; "trust in the Lord...and verily thou shalt be fed"- Ps 37:3

How to use verily in a sentence?

1. Friedrich Nietzsche:

   Open still remains a free life for great souls. Verily, he who possesses little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty!

2. John Kenneth Galbraith, Guardian (London, 28 July 1989):

   In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

3. Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet:

   For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily, when good is hungry is seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

4. Ludwig van Beethoven:

   Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

5. Prophet Muhammad, Muslim:

   Verily, a man teaching his child manners is better than giving one bushel of grain in alms.

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