penultimately

English

Etymology

From penultimate +‎ -ly.

Adverb

penultimately (not comparable)

1. Next to the last in order.
   • 2007 Aug 28, Jon Henley in The Guardian, Diary.

     Our sincere thanks, penultimately, to the countless hordes of you who, during our absence, sent in...

   • 2014 February 12, Severin Carrell, “It's the economy stupid: how Scotland's voters approach the independence vote”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Tied to a BBC 2 Scotland documentary, Scotland's Top Ten Battlegrounds on Tuesday night, the BBC poll ranked the issues in order from the economy – given a weighting of 1.38, to pensions (0.63), then welfare (0.57), Scotland and the UK (0.51), currency (0.4), immigration (0.39), energy (0.35), defence (0.33), to penultimately Scotland and the EU (0.31), with broadcasting (poor BBC) trailing a very poor last, with a rating of merely 0.05.