tardilyadv.
/ˈtɑːdɪli/ In a tardy manner.
1. Slowly; with slow movement or progress.
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 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
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (1623) ii. iii. 26 For those that could speake low, and tardily, Would turne their owne Perfection, to Abuse.
1791 W. Cowper Retirem. 67 The night rolled tardily away.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §219 (note) I found it [cement] to set very tardily.
1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 10 The great tides of circumstance swell so tardily, that whole generations..wait in vain for the full flood on which the race is borne to new shores.
2.
a. After the proper or expected time; after delay; late, lately.
b. Sometimes implying ‘not readily, reluctantly’.
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
1821 J. Baillie Columbus in Metrical Legends xlviii Four small vessels..yet granted tardily For such high service.
1839 G. P. R. James Louis XIV IV. 198 Those motives were somewhat tardily felt, and were..soon forgotten.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xxii. 744 Harcourt..had with difficulty reconciled his conscience to the oaths, and had tardily and unwillingly signed the Association.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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