SIMPLY

adv.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
adv.

In a simple manner or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; along; merely; solely; barely. [They] make that now good or evil, . . . which otherwise of itself were not simply the one or the other. Hooker. Simply the thing I am Shall make me live. Shak.

2.
adv.

Plainly; without art or subtlety. Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise By simply meek. Milton.

3.
adv.

Weakly; foolishly. Johnson.

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