Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Gay; cheerful; not gloomy.
- Lovingly; tenderly.
- Worthily; fitly.
- Cheerily; cheerfully; heartily; briskly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Archaic Cheerily.
- adjective obsolete Gay; cheerful.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
cheerful - adverb obsolete
cheerfully
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Examples
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Things are never quickly done at sea, unless they are done with a will, or "cheerly," as the sailor's word is -- that is, cheerfully.
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy 1856
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So that love might wear cheerly, the master away;
Poems and Fragments 2006
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So that love might wear cheerly, the master away;
Poems and Fragments 2006
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The lamp-light through the rafters cheerly spread,
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“Ho! the fair wind! oh-ye-ho cheerly, men!” the crew singing for joy, that so promising an event should so soon have falsified the evil portends preceding it.
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A slight fear occasionally rose, to be suppressed on a second thought; and evening advanced while yet their hearts were cheerly and at rest.
Summerfield or, Life on a Farm Day Kellogg Lee
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The fire is burning cheerly bright, the room is snug and warm,
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 Various
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Spin on cheerly, little daughter, till your needful task is done,
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Pale and wan but cheerly smiling on its lonely sheltered dwelling,
Welsh Lyrics of the Nineteenth Century Edmund O. Jones
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The piper play'd cheerly, the cruisie burn'd bright;
The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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