Tardily

adv. [f. TARDY a. + -LY².] In a tardy manner. a. Slowly; with slow movement or progress.

1597.  Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., II. iii. 26. For those that could speake low, and tardily, Would turne their owne Perfection, to Abuse.

1791.  Cowper, Retired Cat, 67. The night rolled tardily away.

1793.  Smeaton, Edystone L., § 219, note. I found it [cement] to set very tardily.

1872.  Morley, Voltaire (1826), 10. The great tides of circumstance swell so tardily, that whole generations wait in vain for the full flood on which the race is borne to new shores.

  b.  After the proper or expected time; after delay; late, lately. c. Sometimes implying ‘not readily, reluctantly.’

1821.  Joanna Baille, Met. Leg. Columbus, xlviii. Four small vessels … yet granted tardily For such high service.

1839.  G. P. R. James, Louis XIV., IV. 198. Those motives were somewhat tardily felt, and were … soon forgotten.

1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xxii. IV. 744. Harcourt … had with difficulty reconciled his conscience to the oaths, and had tardily and unwillingly signed the Association.