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DULY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances
Example:
I met the junior senator from Illinois and I was duly impressed
Synonyms:
appropriately; befittingly; duly; fitly; fittingly; properly; suitably
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Context examples:
This civility was duly returned; and they parted—on Miss Tilney's side with some knowledge of her new acquaintance's feelings, and on Catherine's, without the smallest consciousness of having explained them.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The latter chummed with Norman, throwing Arthur and Martin into company with Ruth, for which Martin was duly grateful.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
His visit was duly paid.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The 'haughty, uninteresting creature' was let severely alone, but Amy's talent and taste were duly complimented by the offer of the art table, and she exerted herself to prepare and secure appropriate and valuable contributions to it.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
All these orders were duly put in execution; and in about three weeks I made a great progress in learning their language; during which time the emperor frequently honoured me with his visits, and was pleased to assist my masters in teaching me.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Time! was duly called, and the Jews, seeing that the affair was over, let their man’s head fall back with a crack upon the floor, and there he lay, his huge arms and legs asprawl, whilst the Corinthians and fighting-men crowded past him to shake the hand of his conqueror.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In the morning, Thomas Mugridge being duly bribed, the galley is pleasantly areek with the odour of their frying; while dolphin meat is served fore and aft on such occasions as Johnson catches the blazing beauties from the bowsprit end.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
SIR,—I have duly received your note, in which you claim to endorse my views, although I am not aware that they are dependent upon endorsement either from you or anyone else.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I have need of it this day, but it shall be duly returned to you.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As nothing was really left for the decision of Mrs. Price, or the good offices of Rebecca, everything was rationally and duly accomplished, and the girls were ready for the morrow.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
