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LATELY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In the recent past
Example:
the spelling was first affected, but latterly the meaning also
Synonyms:
late; lately; latterly; of late; recently
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Context examples:
Lately, an increasing number of tumors have been treated with liver transplantation.
(Hepatocellular carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
In a tingle of fear I was already running down the village street, and making for the path which I had so lately descended.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
One of them said that he heard it had lately been taken, but he couldn't say from whom.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I had seen little of Holmes lately.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You must be surprised, very much surprised—so lately as Mr. Collins was wishing to marry you.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
My sister will be equally sorry to miss the pleasure of seeing you; but she has been very much plagued lately with nervous head-aches, which make her unfit for company or conversation.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
For nothing in the world would I have again ventured, shaken as I was, upon the overhanging port shrouds from which Israel had so lately fallen.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
For a moment Catherine was surprised; but Mrs. Thorpe and her daughters had scarcely begun the history of their acquaintance with Mr. James Morland, before she remembered that her eldest brother had lately formed an intimacy with a young man of his own college, of the name of Thorpe; and that he had spent the last week of the Christmas vacation with his family, near London.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
You are to know, said he, that several committees of council have been lately called, in the most private manner, on your account; and it is but two days since his majesty came to a full resolution.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Well might John rejoice, for was he not back in his native Hampshire, had he not Don Diego's five thousand crowns rasping against his knee, and above all was he not himself squire now to Sir Alleyne Edricson, the young Socman of Minstead lately knighted by the sword of the Black Prince himself, and esteemed by the whole army as one of the most rising of the soldiers of England.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
