All 11 Uses of
literally
in
1984 by Orwell
- All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.
p. 8..1literally = actually (not an exaggeration)
- Since about that time, war had been literally continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war.
p. 33..8
- In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.
p. 52..3 *
- It might very well be that literally every word in the history books, even the things that one accepted without question, was pure fantasy.
p. 74..9
- One literally never saw them except in the guise of prisoners, and even as prisoners one never got more than a momentary glimpse of them.
p. 116..3
- This was an idea that had literally never occurred to him.
p. 153..6
- Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution.
p. 155..2
- When once you were in the grip of the Party, what you felt or did not feel, what you did or refrained from doing, made literally no difference.
p. 165..0
- When once they get hold of us there will be nothing, literally nothing, that either of us can do for the other.
p. 166..2
- Now it was all over, and he had literally nothing to do, no Party work of any description, until tomorrow morning.
p. 179..7
- But when war becomes literally continuous, it also ceases to be dangerous.
p. 198..3
Definition:
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(literally as in: literally--not figuratively) actually true using the basic meaning of the words (not an exaggeration, metaphor, or other type of figurative speech)