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/glˈædli/ Listen

adverb

Gladly adv.

Preferably; by choice. (Obs.)

With pleasure; joyfully; cheerfully; eagerly. "The common people heard him gladly."

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Etymology of 'Gladly'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gladly" Quotes from Famous Books

... so generous that at times I felt ashamed that he should do so much for an unwilling bride; and if I could have felt less aversion for him I would gladly have done so. I used to feel that if I could watch him lavishing everything on another woman—for he squandered his love as well as his money on me—I could have ...

— The Story of Bawn • Katharine Tynan

... was mine, From the Sea to the Rhine, I would gladly give it all, That the Queen of England Lay in ...

— Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. • F. Max Mueller

... She started gladly, yet a sense of diffidence oppressed her as she stood at the door, a half guilty consciousness, as if she had no right to the secret Mrs. Clemm was ...

— A Little Girl of Long Ago • Amanda Millie Douglas

... Grim, sardonic, and cynical to the last, she died quietly, gladly closing her eyes which had so long been sightless. She was sixty-five years old, and had lived alone since she ...

— The First Violin - A Novel • Jessie Fothergill

... off on a preceding speculation. "A mother or any parent," he said, "might encourage the daughter to smoke, too. And the girl might take it up so as not to be thought peculiar where she was, and then she might drop it very gladly." ...

— Lady Baltimore • Owen Wister

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