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Yearly   /jˈɪrli/   Listen
adjective
Yearly  adj.  
1.
Happening, accruing, or coming every year; annual; as, a yearly income; a yearly feast.
2.
Lasting a year; as, a yearly plant.
3.
Accomplished in a year; as, the yearly circuit, or revolution, of the earth.


adverb
Yearly  adv.  Annually; once a year to year; as, blessings yearly bestowed. "Yearly will I do this rite."





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"Yearly" Quotes from Famous Books



... Quakers as a body; and that they had made regulations in their commercial concerns with a view of keeping themselves clear of the blood of this cruel traffic. And from that time to the present day they have never forgotten this subject. Their yearly epistles notice it, whenever such notice is considered to be useful. And they hold themselves in readiness, on all fit occasions, to unite their efforts for the removal of this great and shocking source ...
— A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume III (of 3) • Thomas Clarkson
... space containing at least a hundred square English miles. He has raised his rents, to the danger of depopulating his farms, and he fells his timber, and by exerting every art of augmentation, has obtained an yearly revenue of four hundred pounds, which for a hundred square miles is three ...
— A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland • Samuel Johnson
... Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water. And this without metaphor. How, and in what manner? Day and night. With what object? With no object. With what intention? With no intention. Why? For no reason. By means of what organ? By means of its intestine. What is its ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo
... men, and telling them how much better off they would be if they limited the number of cattle and sheep to be owned by each family, say, to ten cattle and fifty sheep. He pointed out to them what a benefit it would be if a schooner could come yearly to trade. He thinks the cattle ought to sell at L3 a head. If possible Graham would go to the Cape with one of the ...
— Three Years in Tristan da Cunha • K. M. Barrow
... fitted for my task as a doer of justice. I myself asked to be permitted to leave the house, so that at nineteen I possessed absolute independence, an apartment of my own in the Avenue Montaigne, close to the round-point in the Champs Elysees, a yearly income of 50,000 francs, the entree to all the salons frequented by my mother, and the entree, too, to all the places at which one may amuse one's self. How could I have resisted the influences of such ...
— Stories of Modern French Novels • Julian Hawthorne


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