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gratefully, adv.|ˈgreɪtfʊlɪ|
[f. grateful a. + -ly2.]
In a grateful manner; so as to give pleasure; with gratitude; thankfully.
1548Elyot Dict., Grate, kyndely, thankefully, gratefully. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. i. vi. 5 The king lent him one of his gallies & did further gratefully furnish him of tallowe and other thinges. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. *v, I intreate all men to receave gratefully this my laboure. 1635–56Cowley Davideis i. 782 'Twas God himself that here tun'd every Toung; And gratefully of him alone they sung. a1688Cudworth Immut. Mor. (1731) 183 Finding something akin to its self in those Harmonious Airs, some Foot-steps and Resemblances of it self gratefully closing with them. 1741Watts Improv. Mind i. xv. (1868) 135 This sort of study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence and expectation of something new, and that which may gratefully strike the imagination. 1782V. Knox Ess. xxxviii. I. 174 Science gratefully attributes to the same source a library and observatory. 1833Sir R. Grant in Bickersteth Chr. Psalmody 16 O gratefully sing His pow'r and his love. 1860Dickens Uncomm. Trav. xvi, I am gratefully particular in this reference to him. |