modernlyadv.
/ˈmɒdnli/, U.S. /ˈmɑdərnli/ 1. In modern times; nowadays. Now rare.
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the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adverb] > in modern times
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1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xi. lxii. 269 Yeat rather it beleeue (for most, now modernly approu'd) Than this our Storie, whence suppose he was to Trauell mou'd.
1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence ii. 54 The honor aswel anciently as modernly of that great & noble nation.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 87 Mount Ida, of old was called Phelorita,..but modernely Madura.
1731 E. Thomas Pylades & Corinna 245 At Matagaxa (the Metropolis of the antient Numidia, modernly stiled Biledulgeria).
1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans II. 69 With deliberations, shorter than those modernly used by the States General, a treaty of peace was agreed upon.
1856 Ulster Jrnl. Archæol. 4 244 Bonaght..was specially due on land modernly held by sorren tenure.
1913 A. M. Burke Index Anc. Test. Rec. Westminster 6 The ‘aqua de Tyburne’..signified the stream, modernly known as the Tyburn Brook.
2. In a modern manner; in the current style; after the fashion of modern times.
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the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adverb] > in modern times > in a modern manner
of the new jetc1330
modernly1612
in the movement1894
contemporarily1930
1612 N. Field Woman a Weather-cocke iii. sig. F4 They are all one to mee, or to speake more modernly, with one of the Roaring Boyes.
1716 T. Cave Let. 2 June in M. M. Verney Verney Lett. Eighteenth Cent. (1930) I. xvii. 344 A pair of boots with modernly Larg Topps, that I've put on to hunt.
1743 London Mag. 35 To be modernly polite, introduces Extravagance.
1821 Ld. Byron Let. 2 Aug. (1978) VIII. 165 There have been thousands of these proscriptions within the last month in the Exarchate, or (to speak modernly) the Legations.
1887 Harper's Mag. July 315 Most modernly American as it is, it has a flavor one tastes in travels of old times.
1934 D. Thomas Let. 27 May (1987) 140 She went to bed and Cliff and I drank some more and then very modernly he decided to go & sleep with her.
1960 M. Spark Bachelors ii. 23 He followed Patrick upstairs to a modernly decorated flat.
2006 O. Pearson Albania as Dictatorship & Democracy x. 495 The Villa St. Blaise..was one of the most modernly equipped villas in Cannes.
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modernly armed adj.
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1894 Westm. Gaz. 15 Oct. 5/1 The well-drilled and modernly-armed force which China can put in the field.
modernly built adj.
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c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 159 The house is modernly built, & seemes to be the seate of some Gentleman; being in a very pleasent place though somewhat melancholy.
1991 Economist 21 Dec. 17/3 After vast inpouring of public money, people in poor areas had to send their children to more modernly-built but much nastier and less parent-selected schools.
modernly written adj.
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1905 Daily Chron. 28 Dec. 8/3 A modernly-written play.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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