"lately" meaning in English

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      "word": "Johnny-come-lately"
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        "1": "ang",
        "2": "lætlīċe",
        "t": "slowly, tardily"
      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English lately, latly, equivalent to late + -ly. Compare Old English lætlīċe (“slowly, tardily”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "latelier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "more lately",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lateliest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most lately",
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        "superlative"
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      "name": "en-adv"
    }
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    "late‧ly"
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I'd lately returned from Japan.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "It's only lately that I've been well enough to get out of bed.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 181:",
          "text": "Ant. […]I am content : ſo he will let me haue / The other halfe in vſe, to render it / Vpon his death, vnto the Gentleman / That lately ſtole his daughter. / Two things prouided more,[…]",
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        "Recently; not long ago; of late."
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        {
          "text": "Don't try to come lately and change your answer now after you've heard everyone else's response.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a late manner; after-the-fact."
      ],
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          "after-the-fact",
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        "(slang) In a late manner; after-the-fact."
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2023, “Honours list on the demise of HM Queen Elizabeth II”, in London Gazette, number 64008, page D2:",
          "text": "David George Philip Cholmondeley, The Marquess of CHOLMONDELEY, K.C.V.O., lately Lord Great Chamberlain, Royal Household.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1545, Inquisition post mortem of John Arundell of Lanherne knight's lands in Devon:",
          "text": "The ¼th of the manor of Dunterdon is held of the king by knight's service as of his honour of Okehampton, now in the king's hands by reason of the atteinture of Henry lately Marquis of Exeter for high treason, and is worth 55s 6d yearly.",
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        "Formerly."
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          "Formerly",
          "formerly"
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        "(of a peer) Formerly."
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "freshly"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "recently"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lately"
}

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    {
      "form": "latelier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "more lately",
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        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lateliest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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    {
      "form": "most lately",
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        "superlative"
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  "pos": "adv",
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          "text": "I'd lately returned from Japan.",
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          "text": "It's only lately that I've been well enough to get out of bed.",
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        },
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          "text": "Ant. […]I am content : ſo he will let me haue / The other halfe in vſe, to render it / Vpon his death, vnto the Gentleman / That lately ſtole his daughter. / Two things prouided more,[…]",
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        "Recently; not long ago; of late."
      ],
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          "of late",
          "of late"
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        "In a late manner; after-the-fact."
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        "(slang) In a late manner; after-the-fact."
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          "text": "David George Philip Cholmondeley, The Marquess of CHOLMONDELEY, K.C.V.O., lately Lord Great Chamberlain, Royal Household.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1545, Inquisition post mortem of John Arundell of Lanherne knight's lands in Devon:",
          "text": "The ¼th of the manor of Dunterdon is held of the king by knight's service as of his honour of Okehampton, now in the king's hands by reason of the atteinture of Henry lately Marquis of Exeter for high treason, and is worth 55s 6d yearly.",
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        "Formerly."
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        "(of a peer) Formerly."
      ],
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