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DELIGHTFULLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a delightful manner
Example:
the farm house, though in itself a small one, is delightfully situated
Classified under:
Pertainym:
delightful (greatly pleasing or entertaining)
Context examples:
She put it away, but it haunted her, not delightfully as a new dress should, but dreadfully like the ghost of a folly that was not easily laid.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
When they had been all walking together, he had so often come and walked by her, and talked so very delightfully!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Had they fixed on any other man it would have been nothing; but his perfect indifference, and your pointed dislike, make it so delightfully absurd!
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I grant you the name is good in itself, and Lord Edmund or Sir Edmund sound delightfully; but sink it under the chill, the annihilation of a Mr., and Mr. Edmund is no more than Mr. John or Mr. Thomas.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Then the Professor thanked him so heartily, and looked so suddenly illuminated with satisfaction, that Laurie thought him the most delightfully demonstrative old fellow he ever met.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
My mother is delightfully well; and Jane caught no cold last night.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
“Your friend performs delightfully,” he continued after a pause, on seeing Bingley join the group; “and I doubt not that you are an adept in the science yourself, Mr. Darcy.”
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
She will make quite an angel of him, and he will make life delightfully easy and pleasant for the dear, if they only love each other.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
We explored to King's-Weston twice last summer, in that way, most delightfully, just after their first having the barouche-landau.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Four nieces of Mrs. Jenkinson are most delightfully situated through my means; and it was but the other day that I recommended another young person, who was merely accidentally mentioned to me, and the family are quite delighted with her.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
