Translation
utterly, entirely; certainly, indeed
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Examples
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He understood absolutely nothing.
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The matter stands entirely otherwise.
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This is certainly true.
desperabant.
They utterly despaired of the war.
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Absolutely nobody replied.
Prorsus is a worn-down pro versus, "turned forwards", and the oldest sense is spatial: straight ahead, without turning. That survives in prorsa oratio, forward-going speech, which is where the word prose comes from: language that walks on instead of turning back at the end of a line as verse does.
In practice you will meet it as an intensifier, utterly or absolutely, and with a negative as "not at all". The thing not to do is read the original sense into it and translate it as "then" or "next". Prorsus strengthens a statement, it does not order events. Beside it sits rursus, the same formation built on re-, "turned back", meaning again.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 6, lesson 2: prorsus, refero, desertum and 7 more words.