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Thankfully. World English Historical Dictionary

Thankfully. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Thankfully adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a thankful manner.

1   1.  With thankfulness; with thanks; gratefully.

2 c. 1000.  Ælfric, Saints’ Lives (1890), II. 198. Þa onʓeat eustachius pæt seo fore-sæde costnung him ða æt wæs and þancfullice hi under-feng.

3 c. 1380.  Wyclif, Serm., Sel. Wks. I. 130. Siþ Crist suffride þus for synne of his breþeren, þei schulden suffre þancfulli for þer own synne.

4 1567.  Triall Treas. (1850), 18. I cannot but thankefully render Such commendations as is requisite to be.

5 1611.  Shaks., Cymb., I. vi. 79. Yet Heauen’s bounty towards him might Be vs’d more thankfully.

6 1725.  De Foe, Voy. round World (1840), 248. He accepted thankfully all my presents.

7 1875.  Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), V. 365. We will desire the one to give their instructions freely, and the others to receive them thankfully.

8   † b.  With satisfaction; graciously. Obs.

9 1513.  Douglas, Æneis, I. ix., heading. How Eneas with all his rowt bedene War thankfullie ressavit of the quene.

10 a. 1578.  Lindesay (Pitscottie), Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.), I. go The king grantit the same verray thankfullie.

11 1597.  A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., *v. Receaue thankfully this my laboure.

12   † 2.  So as to gratify, please, or satisfy; acceptably, pleasingly; satisfactorily. Obs.

13 c. 1375.  Sc. Leg. Saints, iii. (Andreas), 877. He liffit sa thankfully to god and mane.

14 1482.  Exch. Rolls Scotl., IX. 284, note. That ye redily and thankfully content and pay to the said Johne … the said yerely pensioun. Ibid. (1500), XI. 266, note. That ye cause hir to be thankfullie pait of hir said pension.

15 1538.  Elyot, Placabiliter, thankefully, contentfully.

16 1576.  in Maitl. Cl. Misc. (1840), I. 16. The prices tharof salbe thankfullie allowit to ȝow in ȝour comptis.

17   † 3.  Gratuitously; for thanks alone. Obs.

18 1552.  Huloet, Thanckfully, or for nothynge, or without rewarde or deserte, but onelye for gramercye, gratim.

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