freshly
adv/ˈfɹɛʃli/
Etymology From Middle English freschely, freschliche (also as ferscheli, fersly, ferselich), equivalent to fresh + -ly.
1
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.1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
2 more examples
- Filter cards were prepared from freshly collected blood (EDTA blood, 2–6 h old) and from hemolyzed blood (EDTA blood, 2–4 days stored at -20°C).2015 July 6, “Diagnosis of Morquio Syndrome in Dried Blood Spots Based on a New MRM-MS Assay”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
- He smelt freshly fried kachoris rescued from the wedding buffet.2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 54:
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Uncommon In a rude or impertinent manner.
- Synonyms
- lately, impolitely, rudely, uncivilly, unmannerly