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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Merely \Mere"ly\, adv.
     1. Purely; unmixedly; absolutely.
  
              Ulysses was to force forth his access, Though merely
              naked.                                --Chapman.
  
     2. Not otherwise than; simply; barely; only.
  
              Prize not your life for other ends Than merely to
              obige your friends.                   --Swift.
  
     Syn: Solely; simply; purely; barely; scarcely.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  merely
       adv : and nothing more; "I was merely asking"; "it is simply a
             matter of time"; "just a scratch"; "he was only a
             child"; "hopes that last but a moment" [syn: {simply},
             {just}, {only}, {but}]

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