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maryjayjay@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Literally has been used as an intensifier for over 200 years. The Oxford English Dictionary includes the definition of figuratively. Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry David Thoreau, James Fenimore Cooper, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain all used it that way in their writing.

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