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- adverb Obsolete form of
wholly .
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Examples
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The orderly book of the 44th Foot filled up with accounts of drunken soldiers reprimanded for using “insolent expressions” that were “far from their sober thoughts and wholy occationed by the effects of liquor.”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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The orderly book of the 44th Foot filled up with accounts of drunken soldiers reprimanded for using “insolent expressions” that were “far from their sober thoughts and wholy occationed by the effects of liquor.”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Given the timescale, it's wholy reasonable to expect to find a tiger and or dragon in the petri dish the next day.
Blast From the Past 2010
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The orderly book of the 44th Foot filled up with accounts of drunken soldiers reprimanded for using “insolent expressions” that were “far from their sober thoughts and wholy occationed by the effects of liquor.”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Texas was the last state to wholy ban deer dogs (Arkansas baned them in about 1/2 the state) The die hard doggers used the same scare tactics IE. "all hunting will be done away with" and "all dogs will be baned" I'm happy to say that hunting is alive and well in Texas and so are sporting dogs except deer dogs
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Given the timescale, it's wholy reasonable to expect to find a tiger and or dragon in the petri dish the next day.
Blast From the Past 2010
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The orderly book of the 44th Foot filled up with accounts of drunken soldiers reprimanded for using “insolent expressions” that were “far from their sober thoughts and wholy occationed by the effects of liquor.”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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The Farmers Boy will be wholy my own in a year and half, and the others in succession.
Letter 277 2009
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In fact, since they were apprehended under circumstances that are not entirely clear, brought to the US from nation states which have not made public any legal process of extradition, it may be that a military commission is wholy inappropriate.
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Texas was the last state to wholy ban deer dogs (Arkansas baned them in about 1/2 the state) The die hard doggers used the same scare tactics IE. "all hunting will be done away with" and "all dogs will be baned" I'm happy to say that hunting is alive and well in Texas and so are sporting dogs except deer dogs
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