merrily
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English merily, from Old English myriġlīċe; equivalent to merry + -ly.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]merrily (comparative more merrily, superlative most merrily)
- In a cheerful or merry way.
- 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:
- So quickly the poore mans ſubſtance is ſpent,
But merrily with the world it went,
VVhen men eat berries of the hauthorne tree, […]
And old men knew not vſurie:
Now tis come to a wofull paſſe, […]
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 17:
- 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 50:
- Then Heidi would sit down and chatter merrily away.
Translations
[edit]in a cheerful or merry manner
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