DULY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does duly mean? 

• DULY (adverb)
  The adverb DULY has 1 sense:

1. in accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances

  Familiarity information: DULY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DULY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances

Synonyms:

appropriately; befittingly; duly; fitly; fittingly; properly; suitably

Context example:

I met the junior senator from Illinois and I was duly impressed

 Context examples 

The body pointed straight in the direction of the island, and the compass read duly E.S.E. and by E.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It shall be duly paid him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I duly relieved Van Helsing in his watch over Lucy.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

As for the Omega Nebula, de Chéseaux did manage to observe its more prominent glow and duly noted it as a nebula in 1745.

(VST Captures Three-In-One, ESO)

The will was duly finished, signed, and witnessed by my clerk.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My pence were duly paid, and the rest is familiar to you.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These would in time be duly classified and examined.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The living was hereafter for Edmund; and, had his uncle died a few years sooner, it would have been duly given to some friend to hold till he were old enough for orders.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Her pardon was duly begged at the close of the song, and every thing usual followed.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He duly summoned me to his presence in the evening.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)