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单词 prezactly
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prezactlyadv.

Brit. /prᵻˈzak(t)li/, U.S. /priˈzæk(t)li/
Forms: 1800s– presackly, 1800s– presactly, 1800s– prezackly, 1800s– prezactly.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: precisely adv., exactly adv.
Etymology: < pre- (in precisely adv.) + -zactly , phonetic respelling of -xactly (in exactly adv.). Compare later perzactly adv., 'zackly adv.With the forms presackly , prezackly with elision of -t- compare 'zackly adv. Quot. 1851 is from a later, anthologized version of a story that in an earlier version had perzactly (compare quot. 1850 at perzactly adv.).
U.S. colloquial.
Exactly; precisely. Frequently in representations of rural (esp. southern) speech. Cf. perzactly adv.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > truthfulness, veracity > [adverb] > so as to match truth, exactly
rightlyeOE
rightOE
faithfullyc1425
preciselya1513
justlya1538
verbatim1566
strictly1602
exactly1662
correctlya1704
prezactly1835
sensu stricto1849
perzactly1850
'zackly1886
1835 Mil. & Nav. Mag. U.S. Nov. 190 That's just what I think, prezactly.
1851 J. B. Lamar et al. Polly Peablossom's Wedding & Other Tales 53 The place whar you's er stanin ain't prezackly healthy.
1856 J. Pilgrim Ireland & Amer. ii. vi. 26 We can't get out presactly yet: dat's de signal of some ob de rascals.
1877 Galaxy June 786/1Prezactly!’ exclaimed Circus Jack with emphasis.
1926 H. Garland Trail-makers of Middle Border viii. 103 I noticed that right prezactly half-way between 'em was a sharp rock.
1997 D. Waller in D. Snowden Make Music go Bang 125 Way back in the day (1981, prezactly), I got the buglamp of an idea that the future for anything besides mainstream musical expression lay in independent recording.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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