Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Nearly; within a little; almost.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb obsolete In a near relation in place, time, degree, etc.; within a little; almost.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb archaic nearly

Etymologies

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nigh +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Suppose a Man born blind, and now adult, and taught by his touch to distinguish between a Cube, and a Sphere of the same metal, and nighly of the same bigness, so as to tell, when he felt one and t'other; which is the Cube, which the Sphere.

    Molyneux's Problem Degenaar, Marjolein 2005

  • So there we stayed to Gloucester nighly four year.

    The Drummer's Coat 1896

  • We took a bit of mate with us and flint and steel, and many was the things that she taught to me on the road for a body to make herself nighly as comfortable in the open air as in ever a house.

    The Drummer's Coat 1896

  • So we marched with the army, and long marches it was, they winter days, nighly five hundred mile in six weeks as I've been told.

    The Drummer's Coat 1896

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    Joystiq [Nintendo] JC Fletcher 2010

  • Chromium nighly build adds support for custom user stylesheets -- like shutup. css Zach Galifianakis Loses Trademark Beard on 'SNL,' Finds a New One

    Joystiq [Nintendo] JC Fletcher 2010

  • In the run-up to the event, we have had only nighly naps of 3-4 hours for one week.

    Niamah!!! patrickteoh 2010

  • Chromium nighly build adds support for custom user stylesheets -- like shutup. css So why is everyone in the iPad commercial sitting down?

    Joystiq David Hinkle 2010

  • Chromium nighly build adds support for custom user stylesheets -- like shutup. css PowerHouse eMonitor lets you manage power use down to the circuit Motorola Backflip doesn't allow non-Market apps, proves AT

    Propeller Most Popular Stories TheComputingGeek 2010

  • Chromium nighly build adds support for custom user stylesheets -- like shutup. css PowerHouse eMonitor lets you manage power use down to the circuit Motorola Backflip doesn't allow non-Market apps, proves AT

    Propeller Most Popular Stories splitrch 2010

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