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newly

adv
/ˈnuli/US/ˈnjuːli/UK

Etymology

From Middle English newly, newely, neweliche, from Old English nīewlīċe (“newly”), equivalent to new + -ly. Compare Dutch nieuwelijks, German neulich, Danish nylig, Icelandic nýlega. More at new, -ly.

  1. inherited from nīewlīċe — “newly”
  2. inherited from newly

Definitions

  1. Very recently/lately

    Very recently/lately; in the immediate past.

    • She smelled the newly budding flowers.
    • One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at newly. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at newly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at newly

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA