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quietly, adv.|ˈkwaɪətlɪ|
Forms: 5–6 quyetly, -lie, 6 quietlie, -ely, 6– quietly, (9 dial. whietly).
[f. quiet a. + -ly2.]
a. In a quiet manner; without molestation, peacefully; without excitement, tumult, or noise; without moving or stirring, etc. Also, surreptitiously, without attracting public notice.
1494Fabyan Chron. i. iv. 11 He was stablysshed in his Realme quyetly. 1535Coverdale 1 Sam. xxiv. 4 Dauid stode vp and cut of the typpe of Sauls garment quyetly. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 378 They entred into the Citie, and there abode quietly. 1611Tourneur Ath. Trag. i. ii. Wks. 1878 I. 35 That he may sleepe the quietlier. 1729Butler Serm. Hum. Nat. ii. Wks. 1874 II. 20 Let every one then quietly follow his nature. 1793Smeaton Edystone L. §227 A weight of lead..which, in all such trials as had hitherto been made thereof, had lain quietly. 1878Huxley Physiogr. xvii. 281 When the river..quietly deposited mud and sand. 1961Minnesota Rev. I. iii. 349 In the prison camp's Black Market civilian clothes were quietly bought..for him. 1976N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 Apr. 22/4 When the recent coal rush got underway, companies would quietly obtain mineral leases for as little as twenty-five cents an acre from the Interior Department.
b. just quietly advb. phr., confidentially, between ourselves. Austral. and N.Z. colloq.
1937Partridge Dict. Slang 448/2 Just quietly was, in the G[reat] W[ar], a tag-c[atch] p[hrase] among New Zealanders. It had virtually no meaning. 1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 40 Just quietly, between you and I. 1952E. Lambert Twenty Thousand Thieves ii. 123 ‘That Chips Prentice is a soldier and a half. Just quietly, he's up for a decoration.’ Dick found no cause for surprise at this. Chips with a decoration seemed natural. 1966G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. viii. 177 Much New Zealand colloquialism is shared with Australia, e.g. just quietly ‘between you and me’, [etc.]. |