verry
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]verry (not comparable)
Adverb
[edit]verry (not comparable)
- Obsolete spelling of very.
- 1819, Nancy Collin, Letter to her parents, 2007, Terrance Keenan, If Our Lives Be Spared: A Saga of the Collin Family Settlers in Early New York State, page 62,
- I have enjoyed a verry poor state of health since I wrote to you last ...
- 1862, Solomon York, Letter to his future wife, 2004, Wallace E. Jarrell, The Randolph Hornets in the Civil War, page 168,
- I have nothing verry interesting to write.
- 1913, Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, volumes 43-45, page 626:
- When we first came to this place our men were verry feeble […] .
- 1819, Nancy Collin, Letter to her parents, 2007, Terrance Keenan, If Our Lives Be Spared: A Saga of the Collin Family Settlers in Early New York State, page 62,
Adjective
[edit]verry (not comparable)
- Obsolete spelling of vairy.
- 1791, Sir William Pole, Collections Towards a Description of the Country of Devon, page 477:
- Chambernon, of Umberlegh; Geules, a saltier verry. Chambernon, of Clift Chambernon; Geules, [a] saltier verry, between 12 […]
- 1846, William Newton, Display of Heraldry, page 27:
- Verry, argent and sable, is borne by the name of Latewater (St. John's, Oxford); Verry, or and azure, by the name […]