Sim"ply (?), adv. 1.
In a simple manner or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; along; merely; solely; barely.
[They] make that now good
or evil, . . . which otherwise of itself were not simply the one or the other.
Hooker. Simply the thing I am
Shall make me live.
Shak. 2. Plainly; without art or subtlety.
Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise
By simply meek.
Milton. 3. Weakly; foolishly.
Johnson.
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