welcomelyadv.
/ˈwɛlkəmli/, U.S. /ˈwɛlkəmli/ In a welcome manner.
a. With an expression or feeling of welcome; gladly, hospitably.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > [adverb] > with welcome
wellOE
arm-and-arm1564
welcomelya1595
a1595 R. Southwell Diego de Estella's Hundred Medit. (1873) (modernized text) 510 I shall..find the gates..wide open, and..shall be welcomely received.
1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes v. §16. 428 Amitie with such Kingdomes will be earnestly desired, and welcomely embraced.
1649 J. Taylor Wandering 9 There I stayd till the next day noone, being well and wellcomely entertained.
1693 W. Freke Sel. Ess. 259 Such an Army [Militia] you may easily Disband..and, every Man knowing his home, is welcomely receiv'd.
1776 in J. Rae Adam Smith (1895) 26 [In a letter of 22nd May 1776..the Glasgow Senatus tell the Master and Fellows of Balliol plainly that the Scotch students had never been] ‘welcomely received’ [at Balliol].
1822 T. Chalmers Let. in W. Hanna Mem. T. Chalmers (1850) II. xiv. 359 I have been very kindly and welcomely entertained.
1884 Westmorland Gaz. 1 Nov. 5/6 Both were welcomely received by the husband's daughter.
b. In a manner that is welcomed; so as to gratify or please.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [adverb]
sweetlyc900
queemlyOE
lustly971
winlyc1000
sootlya1125
to (a person's) queemc1175
lustilya1225
avenantlya1375
pleasinglya1398
queema1400
beinc1400
farrandlyc1400
pleasantlyc1400
pleasantlya1425
queemfullyc1425
thankfullyc1480
greablyc1500
dulcely1508
dulcea1525
pleasant1553
agreeably?1567
pleasurably1580
sugarly1587
flattering1597
sweet1597
attractively1640
well-pleasingly1645
welcomely1646
flatteringly1661
relishingly1677
satisfyingly1743
sweetsome1799
smilingly1806
dulcetly1810
gratifyingly1822
honeyedly1832
enjoyably1877
suavely1883
congenially1884
a fair treat1884
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. iv. 112 The same we meet with in Juvenal, who by an handsome and metricall expression more welcomely engrafts it in our junior memories. View more context for this quotation
1818 Lady Morgan in Passages from Autobiogr. (1859) 100 The interesting guest who so unexpectedly, but so welcomely arrived.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. x. v. 640 His Portrait (a welcomely good one, still to be found there).
1874 Daily News 22 May 5 Upon all the sun shone most welcomely.
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