Read full poem →publication of one more correct: This I was forc'd to, before I had
executed half my design, for the Machinery was entirely wanting to
compleat it.
Dictionary Entry
To the full or entire extent.
In a Sentence
“It is entirely up to you where we go, as I’ll be happy with anywhere.”
Origin
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Poetry examples for “entirely”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Asunder. They follow their orbits, we
Obey their laws entirely.
Now you must come, or I go there,
Read full poem →Formed in my own poor soul a great moral basis to rest on.
Ah, but indeed I see, I feel it factitious entirely;
I refuse, reject, and put it utterly from me;
Read full poem →If it could only be known, though we may never meet him again, that
It was all George's doing, and we were entirely unconscious,
It would extremely relieve--Your ever affectionate Mary.
Read full poem →of his fable. The only passion that threatened the
disturbance of domestic peace he entirely eradicates;
and this is all that nature permitted him. to do: for
Read full poem →found guilty; and Betterton and Mrs. Bracegirdle
were actually fined. These severities were not entirely
thrown away. From this period may be dated the in-
Read full poem →to promote virtue and chastity, though the custom of the age made the
authors not entirely abstain from expressions not then esteemed gross, but
which now must offend every modest ear.
Read full poem →printed : I thought not convenient to mix them with this volume, which
of itself is entirely new. And indeed it would have rendered the book so
voluminous, that ladies and gentlewomen would have found it scarce
Read full poem →Grateful and glad to think that all
Such doubts would seem entirely vain
To her whose nature’s lighter fall
Read full poem →of Italy — which Rossetti put into print when preparing the
volume of 1870, we can for once entirely agree with him and
his editor as to the propriety of its remaining unpublished. 4
