† postponedlyadv.
Obsolete. rare.
Belatedly.
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the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adverb] > late or too late
lateOE
behindc1330
overlatea1400
lately?1440
arrear1477
behindhandc1550
tarde1557
lateward1572
tardy1586
too-late1620
out of time1760
tardily1821
not before time1837
postponedly1851
about time1856
belatedly1896
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick cxii. 538 He was an old man who..had postponedly encountered that thing in sorrow's technicals called ruin.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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adv.1851- in the fine
- in the firing line
- in the first
- in the first brunt
- in the first degree
- in the first face
- in the first flight
- in the first flush
- in the first instance
- in the first person
- in the first place
- in the flesh
- in the flower of one's age
- in the flush
- in the flux
- in the force of weather
- in the form of
- in the frame
- in the front
- in the front of
- in the front of danger etc
- in the fruition of
- in the full
- in the full flush
- in the full swing of …