dearly vs truly

dearly

adv
  • In a dear or expensive manner. 

  • In a dear or precious manner. 

  • At great expense. 

truly

adv
  • Very. 

  • In accordance with the facts; truthfully, accurately. 

  • Honestly, genuinely, in fact, really. 

How often have the words dearly and truly occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )