dailily

English

Etymology

From daily +‎ -ly.

Adverb

dailily (comparative more dailily, superlative most dailily)

1. (nonstandard, rare) On a daily basis; every day.
   • 1777, William Young, The Spirit of Athens: Being a Political and Philosophical Investigation of the History of That Republic, London: J. Robson, page 62:

     But you talk of the ſubſerviency of a popular audience to every fallacy of an artful orator!—and do you really then think that a multitude dailily accuſtomed to all the artifice and force of harangue, is to be claſſed with a modern croud, opening wide their eyes, and mouths too, to the declaimer, as if ignorant with which ſenſe to receive the novel taſte of eloquence?

   • 1803, Vivant Denon, translated by Edward Augustus Kendall, Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt During the Campaigns of General Bonaparte, volume I, London: Darf Publishers Ltd, published 1983, page lx:

     […] of the institute will hasten the arrangement of a crowd of notes, which I have taken without any other design than that of preserving the memory of all that dailily offered itself to my curiosity.

   • 1913, Bessie Q. Jordon [i.e., Rebecca Queen Jordan], “Victors”, in Poems, Boston, M.A.: The Gorham Press, page 61:

     Ah, Life's curtained altars, which hide as sacrifice / The best of human kind, from pride-perverted eyes! / And those who sheathe in smiles the deadly cruel steel / Of man's misunderstandings which, dailily, they feel!

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:dailily.