A science such as Psychology is not merely an hypothesis, but an hypothesis which, unlike the hypotheses of Physics, can never be verified.
What we are in mind is due, not merely to our physical, but to our mental antecedents which we trace in history, and more especially in the history of philosophy.
There is no doubt that Jenner's medical contemporaries, at least in England, failed to appreciate the magnitude of the gift their colleague had presented not merely to his own country, but to the world at large.
And, let us admit, not merely by the conservative anti-feminist.
A law implies that we know the nature of the generalisation and enactment; not merely that we have noticed some of the effects.
He has a secret desire to hurt, not merely to help.
Complete self-confidence is not merely a sin; complete self-confidence is a weakness.
Footnote d: It is needless to observe that I speak here of the democratic form of government as applied to a people, not merely to a tribe.
Hence the chase became necessary, not merely to provide for his subsistence, but in order to procure the only objects of barter which he could furnish to Europe.
In this case the liberty of the press isnot merely a guarantee, but it is the only guarantee, of their liberty and their security which the citizens possess.
In full session they are maltreated, reviled, grossly insulted, not merely as lackeys of bad character, but as known criminals.
The committee of Jacobin leaders states positively that the Court is about to attack, and, accordingly, has devised "not merely signs of this, but of the most unmistakable proof.
He said: "I believe he is out of danger and will get well.
There was also, for a time, a boy named Ralph; but he appears to have presented no features of a striking sort, and the memory of him has become dim.
You can't see a snag in one of those shadows, but you know exactly where it is, and the shape of the river tells you when you are coming to it.
It was a real cave, not merely a hole, but a subterranean marvel of deep passages and vaulted chambers that led away into bluffs and far down into the earth's black silences, even below the river, some said.
The reading of his youth and manhood, with the vivid impressions of that earlier time, became now something remembered, not merely as reading, but as fact.
This house is not merely large, it is vast--therefore I think it must always lack the home feeling.
Thomas Hardy said to Howells one night at dinner: "Why don't people understand that Mark Twain is not merely a great humorist?
There isnot merely a selection of the hand reactions which effect grasping, but of the particular visual stimuli which call out just these reactions and no others, and an establishment of connection between the two.
This cynical declaration is at least a recognition that the bond of union is not merely one of coercive force.
He not merely acts in a way agreeing with the actions of others, but, in so acting, the same ideas and emotions are aroused in him that animate the others.
This reasoning is not merely absurd, it is atrocious.
A communication was made to them, not merely of the Senate's consultation, but also of the First Consul's adroit and insidious reply.
But it isnot merely from an observation of the apparent effects of cookery upon those articles which are used as Food for man, that we are led to discover the importance of these culinary processes.
He was acting, not merely on behalf of the Brethren, but on behalf of all Protestants in the country.
He was Elder, not merely of the Brethren's Church, but of that ideal "Community of Jesus" which ever swam before the vision of the Count.
We may, indeed, say that it is not merely as an exact observer and ingenious experimenter, but as a distinguished anthropologist and far-seeing thinker, that Darwin takes his place among the greatest men of science of the nineteenth century.
When the string is cut you can be where you wish to be,--not merely a part of you, leaving the rest behind, but the whole of you.
She who nips off the end of a brittle courtesy, as one breaks the tip of an icicle, to bestow upon those whom she ought cordially and kindly to recognize, proclaims the fact that she comes not merely of low blood, but of bad blood.
But the point, I may reply, is not merely to amuse the public, but to offer helpful advice to the young writer.
Surely never did the Muse venture on such a specification of details, not merely poetical, but political, geographical, and statistical, as in this celebrated Castilian epic.
Yet the fate of the son excites a deeper sympathy than that of the father; and this, not merely on account of his youth, and the peculiar circumstances of his situation.
It was a fearful struggle, not merely of man against man, but, to use the words of an eyewitness, of brother against brother, and friend against friend.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "not merely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
