Recently, lately, as in She's been very quiet of late; is something wrong? This idiom uses late as a noun instead of an adjective, a usage dating from about 1250. The idiom dates from the
early 1400s.
of late
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The adverb has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
in the recent past
Synonyms: recently, late, lately, latterly
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