Cheerfully

adv. [f. CHEERFUL + -LY².]

  1.  In a cheerful manner; with liveliness or gladness; blithely, willingly, readily, gladly, joyously.

1553.  Eden, Treat. New Ind. (Arb.), 24. She … procedeth … stoutly & cherefully to the fyre.

1611.  Bible, Acts xxiv. 10. I do the more cheerefully answere for my selfe.

1658.  Bramhall, Consecr. Bps., xi. 17. Now I thanke god I can cherefully sing my nunc dimittis.

1744.  Harris, Three Treat., III. II. (1765), 183. My Friend … chearfully bade me Good-Morrow.

1836.  Hor. Smith, Tin Trump. (1876), 191. We conquer our fate when we submit to it cheerfully.

1864.  Mrs. Carlyle, Lett., III. 208. I cannot write cheerfully. I am not cheerful.

  2.  Cheeringly, encouragingly, so as to cheer one.

1599.  Shaks., Hen. V., IV. i. 34. God a mercy old Heart, thou speak’st chearefully.

Mod.  The fire blazing cheerfully on the hearth.