meetly
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of meetly
Example Sentences
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All Mankind seemed perfectible & we had Painters & Poets & we were indeed Lords of Matter, all number’d cleanly & meetly.
From Literature
But when Melrose he reached, 'twas silence all; He meetly stabled his steed in stall, And sought the convent's lonely wall.
From Project Gutenberg
Her brows crown'd meetly, and, through thee, Her God in sight of all confess'd, She gives in her divinity Meaning and law to garb and vest.
From Project Gutenberg
Having spoken these words, he was houselled of the priest, and died in our Lord; and his son gave him fitting burial, and paid him all such service as is meetly required for the dead.
From Project Gutenberg
And sure enough there they are, a battledore of the best, and twenty shuttlecocks, meetly feathered and gilded.
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