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English
Etymology
From delighted + -ly.
Adverb
delightedly (comparative more delightedly, superlative most delightedly)
- In a delighted manner.
- 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:
- Delightedly dwells he ’mong fays and talismans,
- And spirits; and delightedly believes
- Divinities, being himself divine.
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: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.