latterly

English

Etymology

latter +‎ -ly

Adverb

latterly (comparative more latterly, superlative most latterly)

  1. In a latter manner
  2. (obsolete) lately, recently
    • 1836 June, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 159, page 672:
      He was formerly a master in Mr. Snowden's academy, at Hull. He latterly suffered much both from disease and poverty, and terminated his life by cutting his throat at the Royal Institution.
    • 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd, reprinting of 1912 Wessex edition, Barnes & Noble Classics, published 2005, page 337:
      She had latterly been in great doubt as to what the legal effects of her marriage would be upon her position; but no notice had been taken as yet of her change of name […]
    • 1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume 11, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., →OCLC, pages 159–178 and 287:
      […] the youngest son of an excellent family slightly known to him, who had latterly been studying sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design […]
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