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minus-squareYiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-22 days agoMerriam Webster hasn’t been the academic standard for decades. The Oxford one did not capitulate to trends. Edit to add: https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=Literally
minus-squareTheFogan@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoHard to judge from your link, as apparently they paywalled it. https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/literally but I’m assuming it’s not too different than this. Which also includes (informal) used to emphasize a word or phrase, even if it is not literally true I literally jumped out of my skin.
Merriam Webster hasn’t been the academic standard for decades. The Oxford one did not capitulate to trends.
Edit to add: https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=Literally
Hard to judge from your link, as apparently they paywalled it.
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/literally
but I’m assuming it’s not too different than this. Which also includes
(informal) used to emphasize a word or phrase, even if it is not literally true I literally jumped out of my skin.