Emily Dickinson Lexicon

VERY, a. [Fr. vrai; L. verus; G. waln.; D. waar.]

True; real. Whether thou be my very son Esau or not. Gen. xxvii. He that repeateth a matter, sepateth very friends. Prov. vii. So we say, in very deed, in the very heavens, this is the very man we want. In these phrases, very is emphatical; but its signification is true, real.