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tardily, adv.|ˈtɑːdɪlɪ|
[f. tardy a. + -ly2.]
In a tardy manner. a. Slowly; with slow movement or progress.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. iii. 26 For those that could speake low, and tardily, Would turne their owne Perfection, to Abuse. 1791Cowper Retired Cat 67 The night rolled tardily away. 1793Smeaton Edystone L. §219 note, I found it [cement] to set very tardily. 1872Morley Voltaire (1886) 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.
b. After the proper or expected time; after delay; late, lately.
c. Sometimes implying ‘not readily, reluctantly’.
1821J. Baillie Met. Leg., Columbus xlviii, Four small vessels..yet granted tardily For such high service. 1839James Louis XIV, IV. 198 Those motives were some⁓what tardily felt, and were..soon forgotten. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxii. IV. 744 Harcourt..had with difficulty reconciled his conscience to the oaths, and had tardily and unwillingly signed the Association. |