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English
Etymology
From daily + -ly.
Adverb
dailily (comparative more dailily, superlative most dailily)
- (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 , “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!
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