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recently, adv.|ˈriːsəntlɪ|
[f. recent a. + -ly2.]
a. At a recent date; not long before or ago; lately, newly.
1533Bellenden Livy ii. ii. (S.T.S.) I. 133 The commoun liberte sa recentlie Recouerit was nere loist be falset and tressoun. Ibid. 135 Þis tressoun recentlie ymaginate. a1548Hall Chron., Rich. III (1550) 25 Sodeinly he herde newes that fyer was spronge out of the smoke, and the ware recently begonne. 1611Cotgr., Recentement, recently, freshly, newly, lately. a1735Arbuthnot (J.), Those tubes, which are most recently made of fluids, are most flexible and most easily lengthened. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. xlix. V. 142 The people of Hesse and Thuringia were recently incorporated with the victors. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vii. II. 221 James did not pretend to have been recently convinced. 1864Bryce Holy Rom. Emp. ix. (1875) 151 Its prelates and nobles..retained till recently the style and title of Princes of the Holy Empire.
b. With pples. or adjs. used attributively.
1794Godwin Caleb Williams xiii, A recently conceived purpose. 1848Buckley Iliad 243 The blood flowed from his recently-wounded hand. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xxx. 410 A small space of recently-open water that was glazed over with..ice. 1887C. A. Moloney Forestry W. Afr. 28 One of the recently-acquired German Protectorates. 1922Joyce Ulysses 123 What is it?..—A recently discovered fragment of Cicero's. 1937Granta 3 Feb. 219/1 He was off with the five survivors of our English group to join the recently formed English Battalion. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 19 Jan. 102/3 Females changed hands at prices ranging to 130 gs, paid for a recently-calved C.M. cow. 1979Tucson (Arizona) Citizen 20 Sept. 3c/6 It already has been replaced by the recently-completed 254-bed West Wing.
c. Const. after, from. rare.
1791Boswell Johnson an. 1752, The situation in which he found him recently after his wife's death. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-bks. I. 251 We saw the Clitumnus, so recently from its source.., that it was still as pure as a child's heart. |