modernly

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Etymology[edit]

modern +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

modernly (comparative more modernly, superlative most modernly)

  1. In a modern manner or style.
    • 2004, Anthony Byars, Texas, in Fact:
      The living room was huge and modernly furnished. Open spaces were everywhere, the coffee table was glass-topped, the couches were lightest of tans with red roses sprinkled across them.
  2. In modern times; recently.
    • 1836, Cornelius Webbe, Glances at Life in City and Suburb, page 225:
      If our painters must clothe their portraits in idealities at all, let us at once return to the old taste in this beautiful branch of the fine arts, – as we have modernly done in our buildings, and partially in our statues []

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