lately
/ˈleɪt.li/ adverb B1- Recently; not long ago; of late; not long since. · I'd lately returned from Japan.· It's only lately that I've been well enough to get out of bed.
- In a late manner; after-the-fact. · Don't try to come lately and change your answer now after you've heard everyone else's response.
- Formerly.
Comparative latelier · Superlative lateliest
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On reaching the spacious lobby above, they were shown into a very pretty sitting-room, lately fitted up with greater elegance and lightness than the apartments below; and were informed that it was but just done to give pleasure to Miss Darcy, who had taken a liking to the room, when last at Pemberley.
The Ass, seeing him drawing a dungcart, thus derided him: “Where, O boaster, are now all thy gay trappings, thou who are thyself reduced to the condition you so lately treated with contempt?”
“We are all threatened,” answered the tiger, “by a fierce enemy which has lately come into this forest.
you who so lately, when you supposed yourself safe, exulted over my calamity, have now reason to deplore a similar misfortune.”
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