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▪ I. gladly, a. Obs. exc. arch.|ˈglædlɪ|
[f. glad n.1 + -ly1.]
†a. Bright, beautiful, splendid, precious (obs.).
b. Glad, joyous, joyful.
a.a1000Widsith 66 (Gr.) Me þær Guðhere forᵹeaf glæd⁓licne maþþum songes to leane.
b.c1000Ags. Ps. (Th.) cxxxii. 1 Efne hu glædlic bið and god swylce [L. quam bonum et quam jucundum] þætte broður on an beᵹen hicgen. a1310in Wright Lyric P. 36 Heo glystnede ase gold when hit glemede, Nes ner gome so gladly on gere. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 115 Þe ilondes of þe world, þat beeþ alwey gladliche for to hire new þinges. 1842Pusey Crisis Eng. Ch. 132, I trust that ‘the burden and heat of the day’ will be gladlier to us. 1864― Lect. Daniel vi. 306 At the Feast of Tabernacles..when hearts would be gladliest.
▪ II. gladly, adv.|ˈglædlɪ|
Forms: 1 glædlíce, 3 glad(d)like, gladluche, -liȝ, -li(e, 3–4 gledliche, 3–5 gladliche, (4 -lik, -lygh), 5 gladdely, 5–6 Sc. glaidlie, 6 gladlye, 3– gladly. Comp. 3 gledluker, gladliker, 4 gladloker, -laker, -liere, 5–6 gladlyer, (5 gladlyur), 6– gladlier. Sup. 4 gladlyest, 6– gladliest. (Now commonly more, most gladly.)
[f. glad a. + -ly2.]
1. In a glad fashion; with gladness or joy. Also, in weaker sense, willingly, with alacrity, esp. in phr. I (you, he, etc.) would gladly (do something).
c900tr. Bæda's Hist. ii. vii. (1890) 116 He glædlice all eorðlic þing wæs oferhleapende. a1100O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 1014 Ða com æðelred cyning..ham to his aᵹenre ðeode, & he glædlice fram heom eallum onfangen wæs. c1200Ormin 12384 Þeȝȝ..didenn gladdliȝ þatt he badd Onnȝæn Drihhtiness wille. a1225Ancr. R. 188 Goð nu þeonne gledluker..touward þe muchele feste of heouene. c1300Havelok 906 Gladlike wile ich feden þe. c1400Mandeville (1839) xviii. 195 Thei drynken gladlyest mannes Blood. c1460Towneley Myst. viii. 144 Gladly thay Wold me greyf, if I sych bodworde broght. 1552Bk. Com. Prayer, Ordering Deacons, Will you doe this gladly and willingly? 1591Spenser M. Hubberd 289 Gladliest I of your fleecie sheepe..would take on me the keep. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 237 They would gladly have taken this occasion to extort much money from the Frires. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 731 Scepter and Power, thy giving, I assume, And gladlier shall resign. 1709Berkeley Theory Vision §112, I should gladly be informed whether it be not true. 1831Lamb Elia ii. To Shade Elliston, Or art thou enacting Rover (as we would gladlier think) by wandering Elysian streams? 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 80, I applaud your purpose, and will gladly assist you.
†b. do gladly: a polite phrase used when offering food to a person. Obs.
15..Friar & Boy 75 in Ritson Anc. Pop. P. 38 The boye drewe forth suche as he had, And sayd, do gladly.
†2.
a. Aptly, with evident reason.
b. to do or be{ddd}gladly: to be accustomed or ‘apt’ to. (Cf. Gr. ϕιλεῖν to love, to be accustomed.) Obs.
c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 770 Thisbe, And this was gladly in the eue tyde Or wondyr erly, lest men it espiede. c1386― Pars. T. ⁋813 Auowtrie is set gladly in the ten comandementz bitwixe thefte and manslaughter, for it is the grettest thefte that may be. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. xvii. (Tollem. MS.), A scorpion is a beste þat styngeþ gladly with þe tayle. 1430–40Lydg. Bochas i. ix. (1544) 18 b, The wrong partie gladly hath a fall. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 140/2 Where as ben corners there is gladly filth. |