Both Uses of
veritable
in
William Wilson
- --to me how veritably a palace of enchantment!†
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- We had, to be sure, nearly every day a quarrel in which, yielding me publicly the palm of victory, he, in some manner, contrived to make me feel that it was he who had deserved it; yet a sense of pride on my part, and a veritable dignity on his own, kept us always upon what are called "speaking terms," while there were many points of strong congeniality in our tempers, operating to awake me in a sentiment which our position alone, perhaps, prevented from ripening into friendship.†
Definition:
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(veritable) used for emphasis: to describe one thing as almost like another (more intense) thing