Hourly
['aʊəlɪ] or ['aʊɚli]
Definition
(adj.) occurring every hour or payable by the hour; 'hourly chimes'; 'hourly pay' .
(adv.) every hour; by the hour; 'daily, hourly, I grew stronger'.
Checker: Sophia--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Happening or done every hour; occurring hour by hour; frequent; often repeated; renewed hour by hour; continual.
(adv.) Every hour; frequently; continually.
Checker: Sherman
Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. [1]. Every hour.[2]. Frequently, continually.
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Examples
- If that were so, my sacrifice was nothing; my plainest obligation to her unfulfilled; and every poor action I had shrunk from, I was hourly doing. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The desolate feeling with which I went abroad, deepened and widened hourly. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He wanted to train me to an elevation I could never reach; it racked me hourly to aspire to the standard he uplifted. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Why, said the lady, with much affectation, you see I was daily, nay hourly, expecting to get settled in life. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I shall pray for you hourly. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- At present, and until something turns up (which I am, I may say, hourly expecting), I have nothing to bestow but advice. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- You don't know, and you can't, the daily, hourly trials that beset a housekeeper from them, everywhere and every way. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Emanuel had been very kind to me of late days; he had been growing hourly better and kinder. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Her ignorance is hourly flattery. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The arrival of the French was expected hourly; the panic continued, and preparations for flight went on everywhere. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I get reports almost hourly from the government, and it is certain that nowhere in Europe is there any sign of trouble. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- My dearest, returned Miss Flite, daily and hourly. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Their Graces were both in town, and tormented Worcester hourly. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He was, however, ready for anything new or novel, and no record can ever be made or presented that would do justice to a tithe of the thoughts and fancies daily and hourly put upon the rack. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Since our encampment here, she daily, hourly visits my thoughts. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Even when the Falsehood was still sweet, still flattering to the fancy, and warm to the feelings, it wasted me with hourly torment. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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