GLADLY: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | gladlee
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| | Definition: | | [adv] in a willing manner; "this was gladly agreed to"; "I would fain do it" |
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| | Synonyms: | | fain, lief |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Glad"ly\, adv. [From {Glad}, a.]
1. Preferably; by choice. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
2. With pleasure; joyfully; cheerfully; eagerly.
The common people heard him gladly. --Mark xii.
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| | Related Terms: | | airily, blessedly, blissfully, blithely, cheerfully, cheerily, delightedly, ecstatically, elatedly, exultantly, genially, happily, hopefully, irrepressibly, jauntily, joyfully, jubilantly, lightly, optimistically, pleasantly, rapturously, readily, rhapsodically, smilingly, willingly, with good cheer, with pleasure |
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