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Webster 1913 Edition


Newly

New′ly

,
adv.
1.
Lately; recently.
He rubbed it o’er with
newly
gathered mint.
Dryden.
2.
Anew; afresh; freshly.
And the refined mind doth
newly
fashion
Into a fairer form.
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Newly

NEWLY

, adv.
1.
Lately; freshly; recently.
He rubbd it oer with newly gathered mint.
2.
With a new form, different from the former.
And the refined mind doth newly fashion Into a fairer form.
3.
In a manner not existing before.

Definition 2024


newly

newly

English

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newly (comparative newlier or more newly, superlative newliest or most newly)

  1. In a new manner.
    • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 3, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
      One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”
    She smelled the newly budding flowers.

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