Duly

Word DULY
Character 4
Hyphenation du ly
Pronunciations /ˈdjʉːli/

Definitions and meanings of "Duly"

What do we mean by duly?

In a proper manner. adverb

At the expected time. adverb

Same as dulia. noun

In a due manner; when or as due; agreeably to obligation or propriety; exactly; fitly; properly.

In a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it (anything) ought to be; properly; regularly. adverb

In a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it ought to be; properly. adverb

Regularly; at the proper time. adverb

At the proper time adverb

In a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it ought to be; properly.

Regularly; at the proper time.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Duly

The word "duly" in example sentences

I know my Champs-Elysées: I have lived in the area half my life; and was in fact born about 100 metres off what the Paris Tourism office likes to call "the most beautiful avenue in the world", a tag duly picked up by the M&S advance publicity. ❋ Telegraph Staff (2011)

Here the note-book was produced from under his pillow, and the English word duly written down. ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)

When Bombastês sees himself flouted, he goes mad, and hangs his boots on a tree, with this label duly displayed: ❋ Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1853)

If a label duly recorded as aforesaid is assigned by an instrument in writing under seal, such assignment may be recorded. ❋ Unknown (1663)

Mrs. Sartoris bowed assent; the introduction made, his name duly inscribed on the lady's tablets, and Captain Conyers exclaimed, ❋ Hawley Smart (N/A)

Emeline had chosen for a girl, and Julia was the name duly given her by the radiant and ecstatic George in the very first hour of her life. ❋ Kathleen Thompson Norris (1923)

Although, therefore, the learned divine's monument, with his name duly inscribed, is to be seen at the east end of the churchyard at Aberfoyle, yet those acquainted with his real history do not believe that he enjoys the natural repose of the tomb. ❋ Unknown (1885)

This would account for the extremely partial and irregular occurrence of such notes of authorship; as well as explain why a name duly prefixed in one copy is often missing in another [528]. ❋ 1813-1888 (1871)

For not so dear to the spent age of the grandsire is the late born grandchild an only daughter rears, who, long-wished-for, at length inherits the ancestral wealth, his name duly set down in the attested tablets; and casting afar the impious hopes of the baffled next-of-kin, scares away the vulture from the whitened head; nor so much does any dove-mate rejoice in her snow-white consort (though, 'tis averred, more shameless than most in continually plucking kisses with nibbling beak) as thou dost, though woman is especially inconstant. ❋ Gaius Valerius Catullus (1855)

• j-1 ie entered. thorcot, lu rcspcct to any legislation coming within the terms of section one of this act, unless his name duly appears upon the docket of legislative counsel as employed in respect to such matter as above provided. ❋ Unknown (1663)

Well-known broadcasters, writers and bloggers have been calling our duly elected president a liar, a racist, a Nazi, a socialist, a communist, a non-citizen and of course a "closet Muslim" for months now! ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was the Metropolis Hotel, and you will find my name duly on the register. " ❋ Carolyn Wells (1902)

Now vapid blonde haircuts in a chanel suits are emboldened to call a duly-elected U.S. Senator a “hostile enemy” of the U.S. during what is ostensibly a straight news segment. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This would account for the extremely partial and irregular occurrence of such notes of authorship; as well as explain why a name duly prefixed in one copy is often missing in another. ( ❋ John William Burgon (1850)

"We have made a thorough check and all institutions that we called duly responded. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It had been built by a homesick foreigner of unknown nationality whom the army of "mushers" who paid for his clean and orderly hospitality had dubbed duly and as a matter of course a "Swede." ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)

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