fittingly


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fit·ting

 (fĭt′ĭng)
adj.
Being in keeping with a situation; appropriate.
n.
1. The act of trying on clothes whose fit is being adjusted.
2. A small detachable part for a machine or apparatus.
3. fittings Chiefly British Furnishings or fixtures.

fit′ting·ly adv.
fit′ting·ness n.
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Adv.1.fittingly - in an appropriate manner; "he was appropriately dressed"
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Translations

fittingly

[ˈfɪtɪŋlɪ] ADV
1. (= appropriately) [named] → apropiadamente; [dressed] → convenientemente, adecuadamente
the fittingly named Dark Valleyel apropiadamente denominado Valle Oscuro
her work is most fittingly described as minimalistla calificación más adecuada de su trabajo es la de minimalista
the speech was fittingly solemnel discurso fue solemne, como correspondía
2. (= worthily) → dignamente
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

fittingly

[ˈfɪtɪŋli] adv (= appropriately) → de façon appropriée
fittingly ... → comme il convient ...fitting room n (in shop)cabine f d'essayage
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

fittingly

adv (+adj) → angemessen; name, translatepassend; (introducing sentence) → passenderweise; a song fittingly titled “Goodbye”ein Lied mit dem passenden Titel „Goodbye“
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

fittingly

[ˈfɪtɪŋlɪ] advopportunamente
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References in classic literature ?
The eyes and the smile of Stepan Arkadyevitch showed Levin that he comprehended that feeling fittingly.
Don Quixote was standing by at the time, highly pleased to see his squire's stoutness, both offensive and defensive, and from that time forth he reckoned him a man of mettle, and in his heart resolved to dub him a knight on the first opportunity that presented itself, feeling sure that the order of chivalry would be fittingly bestowed upon him.
He spoke his grace with some haste, and was surprised to hear his guest respond fittingly in the Latin tongue.
One is not astonished by cruelty in a hideous face, but when it touches the features of a goddess whose fine-chiselled lineaments might more fittingly portray love and beauty, the contrast is appalling.
You may accept my word that the child is to be fittingly provided for."
President and Directors, the sentiment of the masses of my race when I say that in no way have the value and manhood of the American Negro been more fittingly and generously recognized than by the managers of this magnificent Exposition at every stage of its progress.
The sun has tanned her complexion, but when she has been two or three times to the bath, and is fittingly dressed, you will see how much her beauty will be increased."
The struggle to apprehend the supernal Loveliness -- this struggle, on the part of souls fittingly constituted -- has given to the world all that which it (the world) has ever been enabled at once to understand and to feel as poetic.
'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' may very fittingly bring to a close our hasty survey of the entire Norman-French period, a period mainly of formation, which has left no literary work of great and permanent fame, but in which, after all, there were some sincere and talented writers, who have fallen into forgetfulness rather through the untoward accidents of time than from lack of genuine merit in themselves.
In order to speak fittingly to a mother of her lost son one must have had some experience of the filial relation.
Some authors, indeed, do far more than this, and indulge themselves in such confidential depths of revelation as could fittingly be addressed only and exclusively to the one heart and mind of perfect sympathy; as if the printed book, thrown at large on the wide world, were certain to find out the divided segment of the writer's own nature, and complete his circle of existence by bringing him into communion with it.
Nothing could more fittingly mark its 90th anniversary year.