delightedly

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1. In a delighted manner.

   […] cards were exchanged, and social visits that were never going to happen were delightedly agreed on.

   2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 15, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN

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   Delightedly dwells he ’mong fays and talismans, And spirits; and delightedly believes Divinities, being himself divine.

   1800, Friedrich Schiller, The Piccolomini, or the First Part of Wallenstein, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, London: Longman & Rees, Act II, Scene IV, p. 82, For fable is Love’s world, his home, his birth-place

   Reappearing, tape-measure in hand, he went into the bedroom and took slow and accurate measurements, whistling delightedly to find that his pre-mortem theoretical calculations and post-mortem practical measurements hardly varied.

   1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 126

   […]it demonstrated Jepsen’s mastery of pure pop: melodic, catchy, with fiendishly clever lyrics Abba would be proud of: “I get lovingly told that I’m part Canadian, part Swedish,” she says, delightedly.

   2026 September 14, Juan A. Ramírez, “‘I’ve never been more terrified!’ Carly Rae Jepsen on motherhood, stardom and her horniest album ever”, in The Guardian, →ISSN