LATTERLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does latterly mean? 

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

1. in the recent past

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LATTERLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In the recent past

Synonyms:

late; lately; latterly; of late; recently

Context example:

the spelling was first affected, but latterly the meaning also

 Context examples 

Hannah had been cold and stiff, indeed, at the first: latterly she had begun to relent a little; and when she saw me come in tidy and well-dressed, she even smiled.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Latterly, however—for some time, indeed—I have had no idea of their meaning any thing.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He said that Mrs. Micawber had latterly had her doubts on this point, but that he had dispelled them, and reassured her.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Her victory was announced by an unusual tranquillity and gladness of soul which followed the relinquishing of my ancient and latterly tormenting studies.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I had it, together with this piece of the true rood, from the five-and-twentieth descendant of Joseph of Arimathea, who still lives in Jerusalem alive and well, though latterly much afflicted by boils.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The family circle became greatly contracted; and though the Miss Bertrams had latterly added little to its gaiety, they could not but be missed.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Henry and Eleanor, perceiving nothing in her situation likely to engage their father's particular respect, had seen with astonishment the suddenness, continuance, and extent of his attention; and though latterly, from some hints which had accompanied an almost positive command to his son of doing everything in his power to attach her, Henry was convinced of his father's believing it to be an advantageous connection, it was not till the late explanation at Northanger that they had the smallest idea of the false calculations which had hurried him on.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Every lingering struggle in his favour grew fainter and fainter; and in farther justification of Mr. Darcy, she could not but allow that Mr. Bingley, when questioned by Jane, had long ago asserted his blamelessness in the affair; that proud and repulsive as were his manners, she had never, in the whole course of their acquaintance—an acquaintance which had latterly brought them much together, and given her a sort of intimacy with his ways—seen anything that betrayed him to be unprincipled or unjust—anything that spoke him of irreligious or immoral habits; that among his own connections he was esteemed and valued—that even Wickham had allowed him merit as a brother, and that she had often heard him speak so affectionately of his sister as to prove him capable of some amiable feeling; that had his actions been what Mr. Wickham represented them, so gross a violation of everything right could hardly have been concealed from the world; and that friendship between a person capable of it, and such an amiable man as Mr. Bingley, was incomprehensible.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Latterly she had been more and more aware of it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Miss Temple, through all changes, had thus far continued superintendent of the seminary: to her instruction I owed the best part of my acquirements; her friendship and society had been my continual solace; she had stood me in the stead of mother, governess, and, latterly, companion.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)