FITLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fitly mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FITLY (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

Pertainym:

fit (meeting adequate standards for a purpose)

 Context examples 

A lavender-water bath may restore me to a condition in which I may fitly pay my compliments to a lady.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was possessed with a mania for patronizing Yankee ingenuity, and seeing his friends fitly furnished forth.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There you have a dim and mighty archangel fitly set before you!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Taken aback at this ungentle speech, and scarce knowing how to answer it fitly in the presence of the lady, Alleyne stood with his hand upon the handle of the door, while Sir Nigel and his companions dismounted.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This evil had been felt and lamented, at least three times a day, by Isabella since her residence in Bath; and she was now fated to feel and lament it once more, for at the very moment of coming opposite to Union Passage, and within view of the two gentlemen who were proceeding through the crowds, and threading the gutters of that interesting alley, they were prevented crossing by the approach of a gig, driven along on bad pavement by a most knowing-looking coachman with all the vehemence that could most fitly endanger the lives of himself, his companion, and his horse.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Several days of unusually mild weather fitly ushered in a splendid Christmas Day.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)