OF LATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does of late mean? 

• OF LATE (adverb)
  The adverb OF LATE has 1 sense:

1. in the recent past

  Familiarity information: OF LATE used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OF LATE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In the recent past

Synonyms:

late; lately; latterly; of late; recently

Context example:

the spelling was first affected, but latterly the meaning also

 Context examples 

Recent unexpected events of late last month involving one or more family members, your home, or other property you might rent or own may be still on your mind as you enter November.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Most of all, of late, when she believed he was most tried.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Yes, I have been using myself up rather too freely, he remarked, in answer to my look rather than to my words; I have been a little pressed of late.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He addressed me precisely in his ordinary manner, or what had, of late, been his ordinary manner—one scrupulously polite.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was a fact that our Indians had shown in many ways of late that they were weary of their journey and anxious to return.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I hope, too, Dr. Van Helsing will not blame me; I have had so much trouble and anxiety of late that I feel I cannot bear more just at present.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It’s not a very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than just give me a living.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There is but such a quantity of merit between them; just enough to make one good sort of man; and of late it has been shifting about pretty much.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He seems to me to be grown particularly gentle of late.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

To cast in my lot with Jekyll, was to die to those appetites which I had long secretly indulged and had of late begun to pamper.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)