Middle English Dictionary Entry

verreilī adv.
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Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)

1a.
In accordance with the facts, truly; with fidelity to an original; also, honestly, truthfully; righte ~, exactly.
1b.
(a) Validly, conclusively; so as to produce certainty; also, so as to learn the truth; (b) firmly; confidently; also, with conviction.
1c.
(a) Accurately, correctly; also, with exactitude, precisely; (b) thoroughly, fully; profoundly; also, deeply, intimately; (c) clearly, plainly; also, manifestly, perceptually.
2.
Aptly, justly; also, properly.
3.
(a) In accord with the best conception of the action, perfectly; properly speaking; (b) completely, wholly; very much; in the highest sense, strictly speaking; also, as an intensive: very [2nd quot.]; (c) in fig. predications: virtually, veritably, as it were.
4.
(a) In reality; actually; (b) sincerely, unfeignedly; earnestly, in good faith.
5.
Used with the force of a conjunctive adv.: (a) of inference or result: in that case, in consequence; also reinforcing a conjunctive adv. [last quot.]; (b) of replacement, antithesis, or contrast: nevertheless; rather, alternatively, instead; also, in addition; moreover, also.
6.
(a) As a parenthetical asseverative, often with diminished force or as rime tag: assuredly, in fact, no doubt, indeed; (b) used before a statement as an asseverative: surely; also used to initiate a statement or an imperative: well, come; also as an affirmative response.
7.
(a) As if in reality, as it were;—often used to suggest the unreality or unlikelihood of what appears or is imagined; (b) in a way contrary to expectations, unrealistically;—used to point a rhetorical question with an implied negative response.
8.
The word ‘verreili’, glossing Amen used as a name for Christ.