Sim"ply (?), adv.
1.
In a simple manner or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; along; merely; solely; barely.
[They] make that now good or evil, . . . which otherwise of itself were not simply the one or the other.
Hooker.
Simply the thing I am
Shall make me live.
Shak.
2.
Plainly; without art or subtlety.
Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise
By simply meek.
Milton.
3.
Weakly; foolishly.
Johnson.
© Webster 1913.