Gloriously
['glorɪəsli]
Definition
(adv.) blessedly or wonderfully; 'how gloriously happy she had been during those few fleeting moments of time'.
(adv.) with glory or in a glorious manner; 'where others had failed he had gloriously succeeded'.
Edited by Juanita--From WordNet
Examples
- We continued our systematic survey of the edge of the sodden portion of the moor, and soon our perseverance was gloriously rewarded. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Our friends, said Wilfred, will surely not abandon an enterprise so gloriously begun and so happily attained. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I should like it much, returned Caroline, to whom, indeed, the notion of such a tour was not only pleasant, but gloriously reviving. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- We are ready to expose our breasts, exposed ten thousand times before, to the balls and scymetars of the infidels, and to fall gloriously for Greece. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Yes, I said; and when a man dies gloriously in war shall we not say, in the first place, that he is of the golden race? Plato. The Republic.
- I look out at some early hour of the day, and see a fine, perfect rainbow, bright with promise, gloriously spanning the beclouded welkin of life. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Edited by Juanita