latelyadv.

Brit.

/ˈleɪtli/, U.S.

/ˈleɪtli/

Forms: see late adj.¹ and -ly suffix²

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: late adj.¹, -ly suffix².

Etymology: < late adj.¹ + -ly suffix². Compare Old Icelandic latliga slowly. Compare late adv., lately adj.

†1. Slowly, sluggishly; reluctantly; sparingly. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [adverb]

lateeOE

latelyOE

heavilyc1000

hoolya1340

slowlyc1384

slowa1398

sluggedlyc1450

tarryingly1530

loiteringly1547

sluggishly1565

languishingly1579

limpingly1579

lingeringly1589

tarde1598

unnimbly1607

longsomelyc1610

tardilya1616

languidly1655

heavy1701

slack1854

snailishly1889

tharfly1894

pole pole1902

weedy-slow1921

the mind > will > wish or inclination > unwillingness > [adverb]

unwillc893

uneathc900

unthankc960

latelyOE

against a person's willa1225

loatha1340

grutchingly1340

at one's unthanksa1400

wandsomely?a1400

at (or again) one's unwillesc1400

uneathsa1425

unwilfully1435

invitec1450

tarrowinglyc1480

scantly1509

nicely1530

tarryingly1530

unwillingly?1531

loathly1547

faintly1548

evil-willingly1549

grudgingly1549

difficultly1551

loathsomely1561

dangerously1573

ill-willing1579

backwardlya1586

costively1598

with an ill will1601

with (a) bad (also ill) grace1614

sadly1622

tenderlya1628

reluctantly1646

shyly1701

uncheerfully1754

à contre-coeur1803

shrinkingly1817

retractatively1851

begrudgingly1853

forcibly1867

loathfully1887

tharfly1894

the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [adverb] > tardily or sluggishly

slacklyc960

latelyOE

heavilyc1000

hoolya1340

sluggedlyc1450

sluggishlyc1450

tarryingly1530

loiteringly1547

tediously1557

languishingly1579

limpingly1579

lingeringly1589

unnimbly1607

longsomelyc1610

tardilya1616

a-sluga1620

sluggingly1653

languidly1655

dilatorily1700

heavy1701

lagginglyc1817

laggardly1835

slack1854

slackly1884

logily1912

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > moderation in sensuous gratification > [adverb] > simple life > abstemiously

latelyc1440

sparely1559

sparefullya1571

sparily1603

OE Resignation A 34 Þeah þe [ic] lætlicor bette bealodæde þonne bibodu wæron halgan heofonmægnes.

OE tr. Felix St. Guthlac (Vesp.) (1909) xx. 162 Þa andswarode he him lætlice [L. tarde], and mid langre sworetunge þæt orð of þam breostum teah.

?c1400 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Sidney Sussex) (1884) xxxix. 24 (MED) Latli [a1500 Univ. Oxf. 64 cum not holy].

c1440 (?c1350) in G. G. Perry Relig. Pieces in Prose & Verse (1914) 18 (MED) Þou ȝernys ilke a daye þat at noghte avayles the, and euer mare ouer lattly þat at may availe the.

a1450 (?1348) R. Rolle Form of Living (Cambr.) in Eng. Writings (1931) 93 Sa mykell we sall latlyer gyf fayth till any dreme, þat we may not sone wyt whilk es soth, whilk es fals.

a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 114 Of a meene heued bytwen greet and lytill, latly spekyng but mystere be.

a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 73 Sterynge of body, ne bathes vse but latly.

†2. After the usual or proper time; at a late hour; late. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adverb] > late or too late

lateOE

behindc1330

overlatea1400

lately?1440

arrear1477

behindhandc1550

tarde1557

lateward1572

tardy1586

too-late1620

out of time1760

tardily1821

not before time1837

postponedly1851

about time1856

belatedly1896

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. l. 581 (MED) Hit wole most auaunce In londis that beth estiuous for hete, The figtre latly [L. sero] ripyng forto gete.

1496 Rote or Myrour Consolacyon & Conforte (de Worde) sig. Eiij^v Ye feerful pryson of whiche foloweth the pryson of helle to suche yt neuer wyl departe fro this pryson of synne in this lyfe, or ellys purgatorye to suche as lately departe therfro.

c1530 A. Barclay Egloges ii. sig. G That hath me causyth, so lately to be here.

1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. B^v A policie..which they put in practise too lately.

1614 T. Lodge tr. Seneca Of Benefits in tr. Seneca Wks. 1 Being badly lent, they are worse satisfied, and being unrestored are too lately complained of.

1676 N. Lee Gloriana ii. 64 This act of vertue, though so lately shown, Will in oblivion all your vices drown.

1791 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 851/1 Oh! too lately, and too dearly known, What can thy loss, thy gen'ral loss, atone!

3. Within recent times; not long ago; recently, of late.See also Johnny-come-lately n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > recency > [adverb]

neweneOE

newlyeOE

unyoreeOE

noweOE

newOE

lateOE

yesterdaya1300

freshlya1387

of newa1393

anewa1425

newlingsa1425

latewardc1434

the other dayc1450

lately?c1475

erst1480

latewards1484

sith late1484

alatea1500

recently1509

even now1511

late-whiles1561

late ygo1579

formerly1590

just now1591

lastly1592

just1605

low1610

this moment1696

latewardly1721

shortsyne1768

sometime1779

latterly1821

?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 71 Lately, nuper.

?1496 Lyfe Thre Kynges Coleyn (de Worde) sig. Cij They came..to worshyp the kynge of Iewes that was latly borne.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. iv. f. vi There to buylde a Cytie in the remembraunce of the Cytie of Troye lately Subuerted.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 39 Bot laitlie lychtit of my meir, I come of Edinburch fra the Sessioun.

1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. ii. 85 To enquire newes of the passengers which latelyest came from those quarters.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vi. 229 'Twas first a greene Tree, then a gallant Hull, Lately a Mushrum, now a flying Gull.

1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 17 They were suspected of pollution by some sects of Philosophy, and Religions of old, and latelier among the Papists.

1724 A. Ramsay Vision in Ever Green I. 215 Thy graining and maining Haith laitlie reikd myne Eir.

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xvi. 166 One of your tenants, whose mother is lately dead.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 469 The Exclusionists, lately so powerful, might rise in arms against him.

1891 A. Quiller-Couch Noughts & Crosses 121 The tenant was a newcomer to the town, and had lately been appointed musketry-instructor to the battery above.

1930 N. Coward Private Lives i. 31 What have you been doing lately?

1975 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 31 May 10/7 Lately, Mr. Cossitt has become a source of some unease among the centrist members.

2013 Wall St. Jrnl. 23 Jan. b7/1 Direct sellers have had a rough time lately.

†4. At a later time, subsequently. Obsolete. N.E.D. (1902) marks this sense as erroneous.In quot. 1565 in comparative in same sense.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [adverb] > after, afterwards, or later

sitheneOE

aftereOE

sithOE

eftOE

latterOE

aftOE

sithencea1170

sithrec1175

thereup?c1225

baftc1275

furtherc1290

eftsoon1297

therewithala1300

afterwardc1300

afterwardsc1300

soc1300

therewithc1369

eftersoonsa1400

suingly?a1425

at after1425

followingly?c1425

afterhand1438

syne1489

by posteriority1523

in sequel1524

still1526

later1527

subsequently1537

senthis?1553

lately1565

subsequent1568

behindc1600

sequelarly1600

posterior1628

in prosecutiona1641

subsequentiallya1683

artera1746

posteriorly1799

ulteriorly1818

later on1829

1565 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) Ep. Ded. sig. *6^v I woulde that eyther I had latelier begonne it, or else that he had fallen in hand sooner with it.

1649 J. Lilburne et al. Agreement Free People Eng. 1 Fearing my Venture should lately miscarry, I tooke upon me the bouldnesse to write an Epistle to Judge Reeve, one of Englands Pilots.

1673 A. Wood Life 14 July He said that he would leave it (being too long to recite) to a book that would lately come forth.

Compounds

Combining with (esp. past) participles, with the sense ‘recently’, to form adjectives, as lately-acquired, lately-arrived, lately-arriving, etc.

ΚΠ

1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel xii. f. 224^v Yet haue thei false miracles and money to bye lyes and to suborne the defenders of their lately made Mayzim their popis god.

1607 S. Hieron Three Serm. i. 25 Some vnexperienced and lately-pressed souldiers.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xvii. 267 The lately passed times denominate, the New.

1619 M. Drayton Legend Robert of Normandie in Poems 333 Dealing abroad his lately purchas'd Prey.

1728 J. Morgan Hist. Barbary Epitomiz'd in Compl. Hist. Algiers I. 95 Belisarius..imbarked..; recommending the Preservation of the lately-recovered Realms to the Care of his Lieutenant.

1798 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 368/2 The truth was never, perhaps, more strongly exemplified than in a lately-published instance.

1818 S. Smith Lett. (1953) I. 285 Pray do not destroy yourself with dissipation between this period and that, so that there may remain a small portion of you for your lately-arriving country friends.

1832 Boston (Lincs.) Herald 31 July 1 A great Stock of lately-improved Waggon-Covers.

1848 T. A. Buckley tr. Homer Iliad 239 With lately-whetted axes.

1907 Month Nov. 501 It proved to be the primitive dwelling of a lately-arrived settler.

1973 New Scientist 18 Jan. 146/2 But this is not to boast of a lately acquired and so far unmastered skill.

2002 Fortean Times Sept. 22/2 A pair of lately-revealed titi monkeys the size of small cats.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	lately
释义	† latelyadj. Forms: see late adj.¹ and -ly suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: late adj.¹, -ly suffix¹. Etymology: < late adj.¹ + -ly suffix¹. Compare lately adv. Obsolete. 1. Slow, tardy, late. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [adjective] > tardy or sluggish lateeOE latredec897 latelyOE slowfulc1400 latesomea1425 languoring?c1425 sluggedc1430 tardy1483 tediousc1485 hooly1513 longsome1543 lingeringa1547 tarde1547 slow-worm1548 tardious?1572 lagging1597 snail-slow1600 snail-paced1601 snail-like1639 languid1646 dilatory1648 sluggish1648 languishing1693 laggard1702 lentitudinous1801 laggardly1826 lag-last1862 slowpoke1872 OE Monastic Canticles (Vesp. D.xii) (1976) xiv. 3 Veniet nobis quasi temporaneus ymber et quasi serotinus terrae : he cymð us swylce tidlic scur & swylce lætlic eorðe. ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 71 Lately, serotinus. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xli. §2. 153 (MED) That is sone til god, til my ȝernynge it is latly. a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 117 (MED) He, þat yn goynge, hauys his paas large and latly, welfare shall folwe him yn all his werkys. 2. Recent. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > recency > [adjective] neweOE fresha1398 hot?a1400 novel1405 recent?a1425 lately1581 neoterical1588 neoteric1596 1581 P. Stubbes Two Wunderfull & Rare Examples sig. Biv^v Remember thou thy lately plague, of blayne, of botche, and bile. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). latelyadv. Brit. /ˈleɪtli/, U.S. /ˈleɪtli/ Forms: see late adj.¹ and -ly suffix² Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: late adj.¹, -ly suffix². Etymology: < late adj.¹ + -ly suffix². Compare Old Icelandic latliga slowly. Compare late adv., lately adj. †1. Slowly, sluggishly; reluctantly; sparingly. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [adverb] lateeOE latelyOE heavilyc1000 hoolya1340 slowlyc1384 slowa1398 sluggedlyc1450 tarryingly1530 loiteringly1547 sluggishly1565 languishingly1579 limpingly1579 lingeringly1589 tarde1598 unnimbly1607 longsomelyc1610 tardilya1616 languidly1655 heavy1701 slack1854 snailishly1889 tharfly1894 pole pole1902 weedy-slow1921 the mind > will > wish or inclination > unwillingness > [adverb] unwillc893 uneathc900 unthankc960 latelyOE against a person's willa1225 loatha1340 grutchingly1340 at one's unthanksa1400 wandsomely?a1400 at (or again) one's unwillesc1400 uneathsa1425 unwilfully1435 invitec1450 tarrowinglyc1480 scantly1509 nicely1530 tarryingly1530 unwillingly?1531 loathly1547 faintly1548 evil-willingly1549 grudgingly1549 difficultly1551 loathsomely1561 dangerously1573 ill-willing1579 backwardlya1586 costively1598 with an ill will1601 with (a) bad (also ill) grace1614 sadly1622 tenderlya1628 reluctantly1646 shyly1701 uncheerfully1754 à contre-coeur1803 shrinkingly1817 retractatively1851 begrudgingly1853 forcibly1867 loathfully1887 tharfly1894 the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [adverb] > tardily or sluggishly slacklyc960 latelyOE heavilyc1000 hoolya1340 sluggedlyc1450 sluggishlyc1450 tarryingly1530 loiteringly1547 tediously1557 languishingly1579 limpingly1579 lingeringly1589 unnimbly1607 longsomelyc1610 tardilya1616 a-sluga1620 sluggingly1653 languidly1655 dilatorily1700 heavy1701 lagginglyc1817 laggardly1835 slack1854 slackly1884 logily1912 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > moderation in sensuous gratification > [adverb] > simple life > abstemiously latelyc1440 sparely1559 sparefullya1571 sparily1603 OE Resignation A 34 Þeah þe [ic] lætlicor bette bealodæde þonne bibodu wæron halgan heofonmægnes. OE tr. Felix St. Guthlac (Vesp.) (1909) xx. 162 Þa andswarode he him lætlice [L. tarde], and mid langre sworetunge þæt orð of þam breostum teah. ?c1400 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Sidney Sussex) (1884) xxxix. 24 (MED) Latli [a1500 Univ. Oxf. 64 cum not holy]. c1440 (?c1350) in G. G. Perry Relig. Pieces in Prose & Verse (1914) 18 (MED) Þou ȝernys ilke a daye þat at noghte avayles the, and euer mare ouer lattly þat at may availe the. a1450 (?1348) R. Rolle Form of Living (Cambr.) in Eng. Writings (1931) 93 Sa mykell we sall latlyer gyf fayth till any dreme, þat we may not sone wyt whilk es soth, whilk es fals. a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 114 Of a meene heued bytwen greet and lytill, latly spekyng but mystere be. a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 73 Sterynge of body, ne bathes vse but latly. †2. After the usual or proper time; at a late hour; late. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adverb] > late or too late lateOE behindc1330 overlatea1400 lately?1440 arrear1477 behindhandc1550 tarde1557 lateward1572 tardy1586 too-late1620 out of time1760 tardily1821 not before time1837 postponedly1851 about time1856 belatedly1896 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. l. 581 (MED) Hit wole most auaunce In londis that beth estiuous for hete, The figtre latly [L. sero] ripyng forto gete. 1496 Rote or Myrour Consolacyon & Conforte (de Worde) sig. Eiij^v Ye feerful pryson of whiche foloweth the pryson of helle to suche yt neuer wyl departe fro this pryson of synne in this lyfe, or ellys purgatorye to suche as lately departe therfro. c1530 A. Barclay Egloges ii. sig. G That hath me causyth, so lately to be here. 1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. B^v A policie..which they put in practise too lately. 1614 T. Lodge tr. Seneca Of Benefits in tr. Seneca Wks. 1 Being badly lent, they are worse satisfied, and being unrestored are too lately complained of. 1676 N. Lee Gloriana ii. 64 This act of vertue, though so lately shown, Will in oblivion all your vices drown. 1791 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 851/1 Oh! too lately, and too dearly known, What can thy loss, thy gen'ral loss, atone! 3. Within recent times; not long ago; recently, of late.See also Johnny-come-lately n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > recency > [adverb] neweneOE newlyeOE unyoreeOE noweOE newOE lateOE yesterdaya1300 freshlya1387 of newa1393 anewa1425 newlingsa1425 latewardc1434 the other dayc1450 lately?c1475 erst1480 latewards1484 sith late1484 alatea1500 recently1509 even now1511 late-whiles1561 late ygo1579 formerly1590 just now1591 lastly1592 just1605 low1610 this moment1696 latewardly1721 shortsyne1768 sometime1779 latterly1821 ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 71 Lately, nuper. ?1496 Lyfe Thre Kynges Coleyn (de Worde) sig. Cij They came..to worshyp the kynge of Iewes that was latly borne. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. iv. f. vi There to buylde a Cytie in the remembraunce of the Cytie of Troye lately Subuerted. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 39 Bot laitlie lychtit of my meir, I come of Edinburch fra the Sessioun. 1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. ii. 85 To enquire newes of the passengers which latelyest came from those quarters. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vi. 229 'Twas first a greene Tree, then a gallant Hull, Lately a Mushrum, now a flying Gull. 1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 17 They were suspected of pollution by some sects of Philosophy, and Religions of old, and latelier among the Papists. 1724 A. Ramsay Vision in Ever Green I. 215 Thy graining and maining Haith laitlie reikd myne Eir. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xvi. 166 One of your tenants, whose mother is lately dead. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 469 The Exclusionists, lately so powerful, might rise in arms against him. 1891 A. Quiller-Couch Noughts & Crosses 121 The tenant was a newcomer to the town, and had lately been appointed musketry-instructor to the battery above. 1930 N. Coward Private Lives i. 31 What have you been doing lately? 1975 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 31 May 10/7 Lately, Mr. Cossitt has become a source of some unease among the centrist members. 2013 Wall St. Jrnl. 23 Jan. b7/1 Direct sellers have had a rough time lately. †4. At a later time, subsequently. Obsolete. N.E.D. (1902) marks this sense as erroneous.In quot. 1565 in comparative in same sense. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [adverb] > after, afterwards, or later sitheneOE aftereOE sithOE eftOE latterOE aftOE sithencea1170 sithrec1175 thereup?c1225 baftc1275 furtherc1290 eftsoon1297 therewithala1300 afterwardc1300 afterwardsc1300 soc1300 therewithc1369 eftersoonsa1400 suingly?a1425 at after1425 followingly?c1425 afterhand1438 syne1489 by posteriority1523 in sequel1524 still1526 later1527 subsequently1537 senthis?1553 lately1565 subsequent1568 behindc1600 sequelarly1600 posterior1628 in prosecutiona1641 subsequentiallya1683 artera1746 posteriorly1799 ulteriorly1818 later on1829 1565 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) Ep. Ded. sig. 6^v I woulde that eyther I had latelier begonne it, or else that he had fallen in hand sooner with it. 1649 J. Lilburne et al. Agreement Free People Eng.* 1 Fearing my Venture should lately miscarry, I tooke upon me the bouldnesse to write an Epistle to Judge Reeve, one of Englands Pilots. 1673 A. Wood Life 14 July He said that he would leave it (being too long to recite) to a book that would lately come forth. Compounds Combining with (esp. past) participles, with the sense ‘recently’, to form adjectives, as lately-acquired, lately-arrived, lately-arriving, etc. ΚΠ 1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel xii. f. 224^v Yet haue thei false miracles and money to bye lyes and to suborne the defenders of their lately made Mayzim their popis god. 1607 S. Hieron Three Serm. i. 25 Some vnexperienced and lately-pressed souldiers. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xvii. 267 The lately passed times denominate, the New. 1619 M. Drayton Legend Robert of Normandie in Poems 333 Dealing abroad his lately purchas'd Prey. 1728 J. Morgan Hist. Barbary Epitomiz'd in Compl. Hist. Algiers I. 95 Belisarius..imbarked..; recommending the Preservation of the lately-recovered Realms to the Care of his Lieutenant. 1798 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 368/2 The truth was never, perhaps, more strongly exemplified than in a lately-published instance. 1818 S. Smith Lett. (1953) I. 285 Pray do not destroy yourself with dissipation between this period and that, so that there may remain a small portion of you for your lately-arriving country friends. 1832 Boston (Lincs.) Herald 31 July 1 A great Stock of lately-improved Waggon-Covers. 1848 T. A. Buckley tr. Homer Iliad 239 With lately-whetted axes. 1907 Month Nov. 501 It proved to be the primitive dwelling of a lately-arrived settler. 1973 New Scientist 18 Jan. 146/2 But this is not to boast of a lately acquired and so far unmastered skill. 2002 Fortean Times Sept. 22/2 A pair of lately-revealed titi monkeys the size of small cats. 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† latelyadj.

latelyadv.

Compounds