joyously
advEtymology From Middle English joyously, equivalent to joyous + -ly.
1
In a joyful manner; joyfully.
- Uncle Henry was milking the cows in the barnyard, and Toto had jumped out of her arms and was running toward the barn, barking joyously.1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, “The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC, page 259:
- Unusually, it runs non-stop from Hounslow to Barnes, and we took this 5¾ miles so joyously that we had to wait nearly two minutes at Barnes for the right-away!1956 September, S. C. Crowther-Smith, “Exile's Return”, in Railway Magazine, page 585: