newly
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English newly, newely, neweliche, from Old English nīewlīċe, equivalent to new + -ly.
Pronunciation Adverbnewly
- Very recently/lately; in the immediate past.
- She smelled the newly budding flowers.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC ↗:
- 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.”
- freshly, recently; see also Thesaurus:recently
- French: nouvellement, récemment
- German: neu
- Portuguese: recém-
- Russian: вновь
- Spanish: nuevamente
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