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endly

endly adjective: final, terminal; of or pertaining to the end; conclusive.

Adjective

endly (not comparable)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) Final, terminal; of or pertaining to the end; conclusive.
    • Of unitie, shewing of our keeping of the sea: with an endly or finall processe of peace by authoritie.a 1600, Richard Hakluyt, The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques & discoveries of the English, published 1903
    • I pull me up, he push, and endly am i [sic] on one Foot on the little Waggonstep.
      (in imitation of German)1898, "Ludwig in London: Walkgo towards Tscerringross", by "Ludwig", in Punch, eds. Lemon, Mayhew, Taylor, Brooks, Burnand, Seaman, Volumes 114-115, page 65

Adverb

endly (not comparable)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) Finally; at last.
    • This allows a more flexible resource utilization and better performance: any process can access its data wherever it is, a reduced migration cost can be obtained by the transfer of a minimal part of the process context (the data partially remaining where it is), endly the remote access cost is...1998, Peter Sloot, Marian Bubak, Bob Hertzberger, High-performance computing and networking
    • Endly, some implementation aspects are presented.1994, Zbigniew Raś, Maria Zemankova, Methodologies for intelligent systems

Examples of endly in a sentence

  • The stretch of wilful obtuse to go in marriage leads a guiding knowledge of man in achieving an endly reach of it […]1972, Igbo market literature - Volume 2 - Page 238
  • Endly the reverse model still means water infiltration and erosion control, at least in spring when the daily resultant is a water table lowering.1988, Christophe Bonnard, Landslides:
  • And, endly, mark our tailed arborean ancestors, trained to the wearing of garments and a single eye-glass.1902, Harry Leon Wilson, The Spenders a Tale of the Third Generation:
  • The rains, which are still falling, have endly allayed this evil...1833, Luke Howard, The climate of London: deduced from meteorological observations...:

Origin of endly

From Middle English endly, endely (“final”), equivalent to end + -ly. Compare Dutch eindelijk (“final”), German endlich (“final”), Middle High German endelīch (“final”).

Words formed from endly

Questions about endly

What does endly mean?
Endly means final, terminal; of or pertaining to the end; conclusive.
How do you use endly in a sentence?
The stretch of wilful obtuse to go in marriage leads a guiding knowledge of man in achieving an endly reach of it […]
What part of speech is endly?
Endly can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near endly in the dictionary

  1. endling
  2. endlings
  3. endloader
  4. endloaders
  5. endlong
  6. endly
  7. endman
  8. endmark
  9. endmarks
  10. endmatcher
  11. endmatchers

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