0 used to emphasize that you mean exactly what you are saying and nothing more: --
I didn't say that you had to go - I merely suggested that you might want to go.
I wasn't complaining, I merely said that I was tired.
1 used to emphasize that something is not large, important, or effective when compared to something else: --
2 only; and nothing more: --
These columns have no function and are merely decorative.
I merely said that I was tired.
There is, they think, a problem about the way in which we connect human agency with embodiment ; and the problem furthermore is not merely theoretical.
The communal virus is not merely viewed in the context of power politics.
Her condition had deteriorated beyond hope, and it was now merely a matter of time before she died.
They do not merely record frequency; they categorize frequently occurring patterns, abstract, and generalize from them.
Conversely, the interpretation of a suppressed subject can be generalized so that it acquires an ' indefinite agentive ' or even merely ' indefinite ' meaning.
We merely point out that strong bias is neither necessary nor sufficient for low sample complexity.
They must experience the obligations as personal, as linking each member to each other member, not as linking each member merely to the center.
Tiebreaking r ules merely change the location of the indeterminacy.