Definition of Latterly

1. Adverb. In the recent past. "The spelling was first affected, but latterly the meaning also"

Exact synonyms: Late, Lately, Of Late, Recently
Partainyms: Recent

Definition of Latterly

1. adv. Lately; of late; recently; at a later, as distinguished from a former, period.

Definition of Latterly

1. Adverb. Recently; to have occurred a short time before. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Latterly

1. lately [adv] - See also: lately

Lexicographical Neighbors of Latterly

latrotoxin
latrotoxins
latrunculin
latrunculins
lats
latte
latte factor
latte macchiato
latten
lattens
latter
latter(a)
latter-day
latterday
latterkin
latterly (current term)
lattermath
lattermaths
lattes
lattice
lattice-work
lattice corneal dystrophy
lattice energy
lattice point
lattice points
lattice window
latticed
latticed layer
latticelike
lattices

Literary usage of Latterly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Homerica, Emendations and Elucidations of the Odyssey by Thomas Leyden Agar (1908)
"head or at its victim, according to the unnamed expositors it is barking. latterly ... latterly ..."

2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1890)
"His health was latterly enfeebled by Buffering of long standing from stone, and his death is said to have been hastened by his efforts to be in his place in ..."

3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"And then Browning loomed on the horizon, surely the brawniest neo-Elizabethan Titan whom our age has seen, and whom it has latterly chosen to adore. ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1853)
"for the light which geology has latterly thrown upon the pranks played by the Earth in its youthful days, he is aware that his hypothesis would lie ..."

5. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1861)
"The acts have latterly portended revolution and civil war so unmistakably that I resolved to mako one further effort to avert these dangers from you. ..."

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