delightedly
advEtymology From delighted + -ly.
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In a delighted manner.
- Delightedly dwells he ’mong fays and talismans, And spirits; and delightedly believes Divinities, being himself divine.1800, Friedrich Schiller, The Piccolomini, or the First Part of Wallenstein, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, London: Longman & Rees, Act II, Scene IV, p. 82, For fable is Love’s world, his home, his birth-place
- Reappearing, tape-measure in hand, he went into the bedroom and took slow and accurate measurements, whistling delightedly to find that his pre-mortem theoretical calculations and post-mortem practical measurements hardly varied.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 126:
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- […] cards were exchanged, and social visits that were never going to happen were delightedly agreed on.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 15, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN: