Both Uses of
literally
in
Arrowsmith
- At sixty-one, Gottlieb had saved but a few hundred dollars— literally a few hundred.†
Chpt 12 *
- Gustaf Sondelius shouted, in high places and low, that most diseases could be and must be wiped out; that tuberculosis, cancer, typhoid, the plague, influenza, were an invading army against which the world must mobilize—literally; that public health authorities must supersede generals and oil kings.†
Chpt 16
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)