单词 | gratefully |
释义 | gratefullyadv. In a grateful manner; so as to give pleasure; with gratitude; thankfully. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > gratitude > [adverb] to thankOE thankfullyc1000 in (on) thankc1400 grately1533 gratefully1548 thankly1605 1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Grate, kyndely, thankefully, gratefully. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. vi. 5 The king lent him one of his gallies & did further gratefully furnish him of tallowe and other thinges. 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. *v I intreate all men to receave gratefully this my laboure. 1656 A. Cowley Davideis i. 20 in Poems 'Twas God himself that here tun'd every Toung; And gratefully of him alone they sung. a1688 R. Cudworth Treat. Eternal & Immutable Morality (1731) iv. ii. 183 Finding something akin to its self in those Harmonious Airs, some Foot-steps and Resemblances of it self gratefully closing with them. 1741 I. Watts Improvem. Mind i. xv. 213 This sort of Study detains the Mind by the perpetual Occurrence and Expectation of something new, and that which may gratefully strike the Imagination. 1782 V. Knox Ess. I. xxxviii. 174 Science gratefully attributes to the same source a library and observatory. 1833 Sir R. Grant in E. Bickersteth Christian Psalmody 16 O gratefully sing His pow'r and his love. 1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 29 Sept. 588/2 I am gratefully particular in this reference to him. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1548 |
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