modernly, adv.
(ˈmɒdənlɪ)
[f. modern a. + -ly2.]
1. In modern times. Now rare.
| 1605 Verstegan Dec. Intell. ii. (1628) 54 The honour as well antiently as modernely of that great and noble nation. 1632 Lithgow Trav. iii. 87 Mount Ida, of old was called Phelorita,..but modernely Madura. 1756 W. Toldervy Hist. 2 Orphans II. 69 With deliberations, shorter than those modernly used by the States General, a treaty of peace was agreed upon. 1856 Ulster Jrnl. Archæol. IV. 244 Bonaght..was specially due on land modernly held by sorren tenure. |
2. In a modern manner; after the fashion of modern times.
| 1743 Lond. Mag. 35 To be modernly polite, introduces Extravagance. 1868 Morn. Star 29 June, The Latin original reads to-day most modernly. 1887 Harper's Mag. July 315 Most modernly American as it is, it has a flavor one tastes in travels of old times. |
3. Comb., as modernly-armed, modernly written adjs.
| 1894 Westm. Gaz. 15 Oct. 5/1 The well-drilled and modernly-armed force which China can put in the field. 1905 Daily Chron. 28 Dec. 8/3 A modernly-written play. |