Justly vs Justle - What's the difference?
justly | justle |
In a just or fair manner; rightfully.
* 1890 , Robert Franklin Pennell, History of Rome :
With a just or fair use of language; with good reason, properly.
* 2012 , Jay Newton-Small, ‘Gangless in Glasgow’, Time , 1 Oct 2011:
(obsolete) With great precision; accurately, exactly.
*, II.14:
To jostle.
* Bible, Nahum ii. 4
* 1776 — ,
* Addison
* 1939 , , Additional Poems , IX
*:When the bells justle in the tower
*:The hollow night amid,
*:Then on my tongue the taste is sour
*:Of all I ever did.
As an adverb justly
is in a just or fair manner; rightfully.As a verb justle is
to jostle.justly
English
Adverb
(-)- His valor, wisdom, and justice made him justly popular, but caused him to be regarded with suspicion at Rome.
- But the city on the River Clyde can justly claim to have turned the tide.
- It is a pleasant imagination to conceive a spirit iustly ballanced betweene two equall desires.
justle
English
Verb
(en-verb)- The chariots shall rage in the streets; they shall justle one against another in the broad ways.
Wealth of Nations, page 759
- Where the competition is free, the rivalship of competitors, who are all endeavouring to justle one another out of employment, obliges every man to endeavour to execute his work with a certain degree of exactness.
- We justled one another out, and disputed the post for a great while.