adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a joyful manner.
1. With a feeling or manifestation of joy; with joy; with much gladness.
c. 1330. Arth. & Merl., 4681. Ther thai setten ioifulliche.
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter xxv. 8. A sted in þe whilk þou wold ioyfully wonne.
1413. Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton, 1483), V. xiv. 105. Ioyfully takyng eueriche other by the hand.
1568. Grafton, Chron., II. 488. He was receyved most ioyfully and honourably, namely by the Citezens of London.
1615. J. Stephens, Satyr. Ess., 322. She hearkens joyfully to the numerous footing of horses.
1860. Wilkie Collins, Dead Secret, II. iii. ‘In two months,’ she exclaimed joyfully, ‘I shall see the dear old place again.’
2. So as to occasion joy; with happy outcome or result.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 993. Pelleus … had pyne at his hert, Þat Iason of his Iorney Ioifully hade sped.
1549. Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Cath. Epist., Ded. The Lorde Iesus … Ioyfully preserue yowre longe prosperous healthe in hym.
1602. Shaks., Ham., II. ii. 41. Th’ Ambassadors from Norwey, my good Lord, Are joyfully return’d.
1883. F. M. Crawford, To Leeward, iv. 42. However the tale ends, we would have made it end yet more joyfully.
