well and truly

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)Completely;utterly;without doubt.Many people remained in their hiding places until the war waswell and trulyover.1759, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XV, inThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 2nd (1st London) edition, volume I, London:[…]R[obert]andJ[ames]Dodsley[…], published1760,→OCLC,pages82–83:[T]he ſaid intended marriage to be had, and, by God's bleſſing, to bewell and trulyſolemnized and conſummated between the ſaidWalter ShandyandElizabeth Mollineuxaforeſaid,[…]1792September, O.[pseudonym], “Art. XIII.Proceedings in an Action for Debt, between the Right Hon.Charles James Fox, Plaintiff, andJohn Horne Tooke, Defendant.Published by the Defendant. 85 Pa. Pr. 25. Johnson. 1792. [book review]”, inThe Analytical Review, or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign.[…], volume XIV, number 1, London:[…]J[oseph]Johnson,[…],→OCLC,page54:Now then, gentlemen, I beg you to weigh well in your minds; conſider ſeriously—for what are you called here this day?—Conſider, I beg of you;—what have you now ſworn to perform?—You have ſolemnly ſworn, that "you willwell and trulytrythe iſſue between the parties." You have ſworn to try it:well and trulyto try it. Now, pray, what is theiſſue? Mr. Fox aſſerts that I owe him about 200 l., which I deny. Now the queſtion between us is, whether debt or not. That is the iſſue which you have ſworn totry; totry itwell;andtrulytotryit.

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