meetly

[ meet-lee ]

adverb

, Archaic.

1. suitably; fittingly; properly; in a seemly manner.

Word History and Origins

Origin of meetly¹

A Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; meet ², -ly

Example Sentences

All Mankind seemed perfectible & we had Painters & Poets & we were indeed Lords of Matter, all number’d cleanly & meetly.

From Literature

But when Melrose he reached, 'twas silence all; He meetly stabled his steed in stall, And sought the convent's lonely wall.

From Project Gutenberg

Her brows crown'd meetly, and, through thee, Her God in sight of all confess'd, She gives in her divinity Meaning and law to garb and vest.

From Project Gutenberg

Having spoken these words, he was houselled of the priest, and died in our Lord; and his son gave him fitting burial, and paid him all such service as is meetly required for the dead.

From Project Gutenberg

And sure enough there they are, a battledore of the best, and twenty shuttlecocks, meetly feathered and gilded.

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