Sentence:  On the street outside , Hieronymus envisions a holocaust of the vanities of this world , such a burning of artistic and erotic productions as his namesake <WSD>actually</WSD> brought to pass in Florence , and prophetically he issues his curse : `` Gladius Dei super terram cito et velociter '' . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  used to imply that one would expect the fact to be the opposite of that stated; surprisingly