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modernly

adverb

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adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English modern Middle English -ly English -ly English modernly From modern + -ly.

  1. In a modern manner or style.

    The living room was huge and modernly furnished. Open spaces were everywhere, the coffee table was glass-topped, the couches were lightest of tans with red roses sprinkled across them.

  2. In modern times; recently.

    If our painters must clothe their portraits in idealities at all, let us at once return to the old taste in this beautiful branch of the fine arts, – as we have modernly done in our buildings, and partially in our statues […]