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Literally
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: adverb (adv.)
1. According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh.
2. With close adherence to words; word by word. So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally. Dryden.