publicly
English
Alternative forms
- publically (fairly rare)
- publickly (obsolete)
- publictly (rare, Scotland, from code switching with Scots)
- publiquely (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpʌblɪkli/
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Usage notes
Derived terms
Translations
in an open and public manner — see also in public
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References
- publicly/publically at Google Ngram Viewer
- “publically”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “publically”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- Is there a case for 'publically'? Part 1 | Macmillan Dictionary Blog
Further reading
- “publicly”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “publicly”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Scots
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Early Modern English publiquely.
Adverb
publicly (not comparable)
- officially, in the presence of public representatives or on behalf the public
- 1858, Alexander Crawford Lindsay, quoting Lord Edzell, Lives of the Lindsays, page 388:
- Albeit I have stayit here in Edinburgh ane year and three months bygane, craving ever to be tryit of the unhappy slaughter of my umquhile Lord of Spynie, whereof I protest before God and your Majesty I am maist innocent, my Lord of Crawford will neither call me (prosecute me) therefor, nor stay, baith privately and publicly, yea in face of your Majesty's honourable Privy Council, to calumniate me.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- openly, in the presence of other people
References
- “publicly, adv.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
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