freshly
adverb
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Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɛʃli/
adv
Etymology: From Middle English freschely, freschliche (also as ferscheli, fersly, ferselich), equivalent to fresh + -ly.
- Recently, newly.
“The freshly picked flowers will wilt in a few days but for now are still fragrant.”
“Florence, hardly glancing round her, lest she should remind him freshly of their last parting […] led him out to a coach that was waiting at the door, and carried him away.”
- In a rude or impertinent manner.