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regularly

adv
/ˈɹɛɡ.jʊ.lə.li/UK/ˈɹɛɡ.jə.lɚ.li/US

Etymology

From regular + -ly.

  1. derived from *h₃reǵ-✻ — “move in a straight line”
  2. derived from rēgulāris — “continuing rules for guidance”
  3. derived from reguler
  4. derived from reguler
  5. inherited from reguler
  6. suffixed as regularly — “regular + ly”

Definitions

  1. With constant frequency or pattern.

    • We regularly buy lottery tickets from the corner store.
    • Wax models of the pudenda of both sexes were regularly placed before the altar.
    • Promontory's "last spike" ceremony was so significant to the USA's history that it is still regularly re-enacted today, using replica locomotives that nose up to each other just as the originals did.

  2. normally

    normally; ordinarily.

    • Noemi decided to dress regularly for the party, instead of going for an outrageous outfit.
    • The period of life at which initiation takes place is regularly puberty.

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Derived

unregularly

Vish — recursive loop

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

7 hops · closes at regularly

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