[Rorkimaru]

Originally Posted by hannah.

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literally
ˈlɪt(ə)rəli/Submit
adverb
in a literal manner or sense; exactly.
"the driver took it literally when asked to go straight over the roundabout"
synonyms: verbatim, word for word, line for line, letter for letter, to the letter; More
antonyms: loosely, imprecisely, metaphorically
informal
used for emphasis while not being literally true.
"I have received literally thousands of letters"

been used to mean that since the 1760s