6 sentences with 'truly'
Example sentences and phrases with the word truly and other words derived from it.
• « Europeans truly believed that members of other religions were infidels (i.e., "those who are infidels", those who worshipped the right God, but in the wrong way, including Jews and Muslims, but also Christians who deviated from official orthodoxy) or pagans (those who worshipped false gods) who must convert or be exterminated. »
• « The first settlements straddling the line between "cities" and true "cities" existed around 4000 BC, but a truly urban society in Mesopotamia was established closer to 3000 BC, with a few dozen city-states managing the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates. »
• « The Jewish religion was the first to accept a truly egalitarian element in its ethic; no other people had proposed the idea of the essential equality of all human beings (although some aspects of the Egyptian religion came close). »
• « Although they did not represent a truly unified body of thought, the one common Sophist doctrine was that all human beliefs and customs were only habits of a society, that there were no absolute truths, and that it was therefore vitally important for an educated man to be able to argue both sides of an issue with equal skill and rhetorical ability. »
• « Alexander the Great was one of the historical figures who truly deserves the honorific "The Great". »