fitly
Americanadverb
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in a proper or suitable manner.
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at a proper or suitable time.
adverb
Etymology
Origin of fitly
Example Sentences
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As a young professor at Wilberforce College in Ohio, Du Bois had initially praised Washington’s 1895 speech, telegraphing his congratulations “upon your phenomenal success at Atlanta—it was a word fitly spoken.”
From Literature
“The scene which ensued when it became known that Col. Parker could not be found, can be faintly imagined, but the pen fails to describe it fitly,” the New York Times proclaimed.
From Washington Post
‘We have not the time or the tools to bury our comrade fitly, or to raise a mound over him. A cairn we might build.’
From Literature
To Huxley may fitly be applied what Faraday said of himself, that he had “no time to make money.”
From Project Gutenberg
In fact the controversy of which he was the centre may fitly be compared with the earlier battles between the Maimonists and anti-Maimonists.
From Project Gutenberg
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