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# freshly

«freshly» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Very recently; only just: «freshly baked bread», «freshly…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (freshly)

### meaning for a pupil

Very recently; only just: «freshly baked bread», «freshly cut grass». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/freshly/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Tradition reads the fresh olive leaf as a sign that the world was alive again after the Flood; some say its bitterness hinted that food from God is better than gifts from people. In the primary lessons: Used almost always before a past participle to tell the reader something was done a moment ago, so it is new, clean or at its best: freshly made, freshly washed, freshly painted, freshly squeezed. In safety: «freshly painted» means wet paint — don't touch.

### examples

- And the dove came in to him at eventide; and lo in her mouth an olive-leaf freshly plucked; so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. (Torah GEN.8.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/freshly/#x1)
- The kitchen smelled of freshly baked bread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/freshly/#x2)
- I love the smell of freshly cut grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/freshly/#x3)
- She drank a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/freshly/#x4)
- Careful, the bench is freshly painted! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/freshly/#x5)
- My freshly washed socks are on the line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/freshly/#x6)
- We had freshly picked strawberries from the farm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/freshly/#x7)
- He had not gone many paces into the shrubbery when before him lay a freshly wounded deer! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/freshly/#x8)

### note

Adverb from «fresh» + «-ly». Usually comes right before a past participle (baked, cut, made). Do not use «freshly» for people feeling fresh: say «I feel fresh», not «I feel freshly».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «freshly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/freshly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.