Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • With gratitude or thankfulness.
  • In a grateful, agreeable, or pleasing manner.

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  • adverb In a grateful manner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a thankful manner; with thanks
  • adverb with appreciation; in a grateful manner

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Examples

  • And quite firmly I was led towards it and given over to the man, who, setting down his cup of wine, took a coin gratefully from my Master.

    Beauty's Punishment Rice, Anne 1984

  • Looking back on their earlier days of comradeship, he recalled gratefully what a power for good she had always been.

    Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower

  • But I recall gratefully other influences quite as important to one's education.

    My Memories of Eighty Years Depew, Chauncey M 1922

  • The same, being delivered, call her gratefully a recreant.

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898

  • But I recall gratefully other influences quite as important to one's education.

    My Memories of Eighty Years 1881

  • The same, being delivered, call her gratefully a recreant.

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1833

  • He recalled gratefully how all of them would visit him after his accident and that he would never forget the people who stuck close to him in his time of crisis.

    unknown title 2009

  • He recalled gratefully how all of them would visit him after his accident and that he would never forget the people who stuck close to him in his time of crisis.

    unknown title 2009

  • ‘All phone calls gratefully accepted,’ I wrote, ‘especially as I have been sentenced to three weeks on the bed!.

    A Special Relationship Douglas Kennedy 2003

  • ‘All phone calls gratefully accepted,’ I wrote, ‘especially as I have been sentenced to three weeks on the bed!.

    A Special Relationship Douglas Kennedy 2003

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