| 单词 |
joyfully |
| 释义 |
joyfully, adv.|ˈdʒɔɪfʊlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a joyful manner.
1. With a feeling or manifestation of joy; with joy; with much gladness.
c1330Arth. & Merl. 4681 Ther thai setten ioifulliche. a1340Hampole Psalter xxv. 8 A sted in þe whilk þou wold ioyfully wonne. 1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) v. xiv. 105 Ioyfully takyng eueriche other by the hand. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 488 He was receyved most ioyfully and honourably, namely by the Citezens of London. 1615J. Stephens Satyr. Ess. 322 She hearkens joyfully to the numerous footing of horses. 1860Wilkie Collins Dead Secret ii. iii, ‘In two months’, she exclaimed joyfully, ‘I shall see the dear old place again’.
2. So as to occasion joy; with happy outcome or result.
c1400Destr. Troy 993 Pelleus..had pyne at his hert, Þat Iason of his Iorney Ioifully hade sped. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Cath. Epist. Ded., The Lorde Iesus..Ioyfully preserue yowre longe prosperous healthe in hym. 1602Shakes. Ham. ii. ii. 41 Th' Ambassadors from Norwey, my good Lord, Are ioyfully return'd. 1883F. M. Crawford To Leeward iv. 42 However the tale ends, we would have made it end yet more joyfully. |
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