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flatly, adv.|ˈflætlɪ|
[f. flat a. + -ly2.]
1. In a flat or prostrate position. ? Obs.
c1425Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxxviii. 69 He..ran And layd hym at þe erd flatly. 1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 463 At his looke she flatly falleth downe.
2. a. With small curvature. b. As on a flat surface; without relief.
1797Holcroft Stolberg's Trav. (ed. 2) II. l. 205 It was very flatly arched. 1883C. C. Perkins Ital. Sculpt. 116 Plants, fruits, and flowers are..treated flatly, and not in the round.
3. a. In a plain, blunt, or decisive manner; without ambiguity, qualification, or hesitation; plainly, bluntly; decisively. b. In the unqualified sense of the statement; absolutely, completely.
a.1562Cooper Answ. Priv. Masse 38 If I should flatly deny, that the mynister receiued. 1578Chr. Prayers in Priv. Prayers (1851) 541 To speak flatly, those only are the things, that are..hurtful unto us. a1618Raleigh Prerog. Parl. (1628) 9 He was flatly denied the Subsedy demanded. 1761–2Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) IV. lxii. 641 The common council of London flatly refused to submit. 1809N. Pinkney Trav. France 57 He..flatly told me, that I must either have that or none. 1879McCarthy Own Times II. xxix. 389 He seldom expresses any opinion one day without flatly contradicting it the next.
b.1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 101 Mankind being flatly corrupted by sinne. 1583Babington Commandm. i. (1615) 17 Such things as flatlie and directly are contrary to the loue of thee. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. iv. 14 Flatly against Scripture. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. vii. 246 Which is flatly impossible. 1849Ruskin Sev. Lamps ii. §1. 29 Of all sin there is..no one more flatly opposite to the Almighty. 1874J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Par. Churches 187 This is of course..flatly impossible.
4. In a dull or spiritless manner; without zest; insipidly.
1644Digby Two Treat. ii. Concl. 461 We shall but flatly relish the most poinant meates. 1697Dryden Virg. Past. Pref. (1721) I. 87 That famous Passage of Lucan..which Brabeuf has rendered so flatly. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 45. 3/2 The Line [is] flatly Dull and Poor. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. iii. vi, He did not appear to have hidden anything, so went off flatly. 1885Manch. Exam. 22 July 3/1 It..simply says ineffectively and flatly what has been said effectively and brightly by a score of writers.
b. Comm. With little competition.
1887Daily News 8 July 6/8 The more important parcels offered in public sale to-day went off flatly. |