What do you mean by duly

Get Word of the Day daily email! Test Your Vocabulary. Can you spell these 10 commonly misspelled words? Love words? Need even more definitions? Just between us: it's complicated. Ask the Editors 'Everyday' vs. What Is 'Semantic Bleaching'? How 'literally' can mean "figuratively". The non-graduates already in place looked fearfully at the arrival of graduates, anticipating the lack of further promotion and their fears were duly born out.

These were duly dismissed after but found full faculty support when it came to providing them or their widows with adequate pensions. The very valuable suggestions of the two anonymous referees of this journal are duly acknowledged. This room to manoeuvre was duly exploited by the chancellor. It comprised six volumes of canon law, which are duly itemised. The classical origins of rhetoric are duly acknowledged in all three volumes.

The interview partners were informed in advance about the subject concerned, and duly invited to the sessions. They visited the mining areas, under the guidance of one of the main proprietors and made a gesture, duly photographed, towards panning for gold themselves. The government duly intervened with a policy package that included a binding wage measure.

Firstly, many states have failed to enact the legislation to implement duly ratified international treaties. Moral character in itself, whether good or bad, as exhibited in thought and conduct, surely cannot be duly represented in words. In the final block, they regained most of their points and were duly awarded their prize. It is duly weighty, produced to very high standards and does them considerable credit. There was, after all, considerable scope for manoeuvre once the letter of the law had been duly applied.

These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. An example of duly is a person showing up when they were supposed to arrive. The citizen's concern was duly noted in the meeting minutes. The nominal governor of the country was the Turkish vali, who resided at Banjaluka or Travnik, and rarely interfered in local affairs, if the taxes were duly paid. Religious instruction is not imparted by the state-paid teachers in any state, though in certain states persons duly authorized by the religious organizations are allowed to give religious instruction to children of their own denomination where the parents' consent has been obtained.

That is to say, on being duly moistened they return to life again. Those who collect taxes without being duly authorized by Government, or misappropriate public funds. Violation of the immunity due to those who come with this mission, duly accredited, in the form prescribed by international law. Every one had read or heard something exceedingly horrible, which he duly communicated to all the rest. New Word List Word List. Save This Word!