All 3 Uses of
literally
in
Mansfield Park
- Do you mean literally or figuratively?
Chpt 10 *literally = actually (not just figuratively)
- Literally, I conclude.
Chpt 10
- Had the doctor been contented to take my dining-table when I came away, as anybody in their senses would have done, instead of having that absurd new one of his own, which is wider, literally wider than the dinner-table here, how infinitely better it would have been! and how much more he would have been respected! for people are never respected when they step out of their proper sphere.
Chpt 23literally = actually (not an exaggeration)
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)