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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
1. In a whole or complete manner; entirely; completely; perfectly.
Nor wholly overcome, nor wholly yield. --Dryden.
2. To the exclusion of other things; totally; fully.
They employed themselves wholly in domestic life. --Addison.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
adverb
1: to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent ('whole' is often used informally for 'wholly'); "he was wholly convinced"; "entirely satisfied with the meal"; "it was completely different from what we expected"; "was completely at fault"; "a totally new situation"; "the directions were all wrong"; "it was not altogether her fault"; "an altogether new approach"; "a whole new idea" [syn: {wholly}, {entirely}, {completely}, {totally}, {all}, {altogether}, {whole}] [ant: {part}, {partially}, {partly}]
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