What does fitly mean?
Fitly means In a fit manner.
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/ˈfɪtli/ · adverb
In a fit manner.
Meane-while it is a great comfort unto a Christian man, to see our mortall implements, and fading tooles, so fitly sorted to our holy and divine faith[…].
I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a whale; a’ plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at last devours them all at a mouthful […]
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Labour is Life: from the inmost heart of the Worker rises his god-given Force, the sacred celestial Life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God; from his inmost heart awakens him to all nobleness, — to all knowledge, ‘self-knowledge’ and much else, so soon as Work fitly begins.
This Court has a solemn duty to protect society against the murderous attacks of dangerous men, whether they be old or young, and to show clearly that it will punish fitly such offenders.
Use fitly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fitly means In a fit manner.
Common synonyms include suitably, properly, commodiously, conveniently.
Possible antonyms include unsuitably, inappropriately, not suitably.
Meane-while it is a great comfort unto a Christian man, to see our mortall implements, and fading tooles, so fitly sorted to our holy and divine faith[…].
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