fitly

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
11
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈfɪtli/ (UK)

Definition of fitly

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. In a fit manner
    “Meane-while it is a great comfort unto a Christian man, to see our mortall implements, and fading tooles, so fitly sorted to our holy and divine faith[…].”
    “I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a whale; a’ plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at last devours them all at a mouthful […]”
    “A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.”
    “Labour is Life: from the inmost heart of the Worker rises his god-given Force, the sacred celestial Life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God; from his inmost heart awakens him to all nobleness, — to all knowledge, ‘self-knowledge’ and much else, so soon as Work fitly begins.”
    “This Court has a solemn duty to protect society against the murderous attacks of dangerous men, whether they be old or young, and to show clearly that it will punish fitly such offenders.”

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Etymology

From fit + -ly.

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