merely
About 58.28 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adverb Without any other reason etc.; only, just, and nothing more. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
- adverb Wholly, entirely.
Similar words
but simply only just exclusively simple solely single alone uniquely
Often followed by
a to the as an because by in for that
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