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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
heartily
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
heartily recommend (=strongly and enthusiastically)
▪ I heartily recommend the cheese sandwiches.
laugh heartilyespecially written (= laugh a lot)
▪ Misha laughed heartily throughout the play.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
sick
▪ The next ball, the bowler, by now heartily sick of the sight of my man, dug one in short.
■ VERB
eat
▪ We ate heartily every night, we could afford croissants at breakfast, and we stopped scrounging for cigarettes.
▪ Aunt Tossie, now in the full regalia of her widow's weeds, was eating heartily but in a subdued way.
▪ Stephen took several and ate heartily.
▪ All through the meal he picked at his food, while Peter ate heartily with a quip about being a condemned man.
▪ He always ate heartily on these occasions.
laugh
▪ This they did two or three times, forgetting my presence, and laughed heartily at the mistake.
▪ He too laughs heartily, his face growing red with sake.
▪ Pearce laughs heartily at the recollection.
▪ At this, Kay Collins laughs heartily.
▪ Derek, laughing heartily, gave me the key and I let myself in to meet my birthday present.
▪ Across the room, a table of young men in fitted shirts is laughing heartily and splashing out wine.
recommend
▪ I would heartily recommend this piece of shareware to any Windows 3.1 user.
▪ Well, we heartily recommend against loading your assault rifle and heading for the mall.
▪ This is a book I heartily recommend to al hill walkers.
▪ For your daily requirement of vino e cucina, I heartily recommend Vino e Cucino.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Ryan laughed heartily.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Franklin Roosevelt, who equated wealth with energy and idealism, heartily endorsed the appointment.
▪ He was nineteen, not uncomely, and Topaz disliked him most heartily.
▪ How could she eat so heartily and never put an ounce on her bony frame?
▪ Lawyers on both sides of the Simpson case heartily endorse that sentiment.
▪ Leonora was heartily glad to wave her off to her party.
▪ Nestor made them heartily welcome, but about the object of their coming he could give them little help.
▪ She was heartily glad when they were installed at last in front of the fire, trays on knees.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Heartily

Heartily \Heart"i*ly\ (h[aum]rt"[i^]*l[y^]), adv. [From Hearty.]

  1. From the heart; with all the heart; with sincerity.

    I heartily forgive them.
    --Shak.

  2. With zeal; actively; vigorously; willingly; cordially; as, he heartily assisted the prince.

    To eat heartily, to eat freely and with relish.
    --Addison.

    Syn: Sincerely; cordially; zealously; vigorously; actively; warmly; eagerly; ardently; earnestly.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
heartily

c.1300, from hearty + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
heartily

adv. In a hearty manner.

WordNet
heartily
  1. adv. with gusto and without reservation; "the boy threw himself heartily into his work"

  2. in a hearty manner; "`Yes,' the children chorused heartily"; "We welcomed her warmly" [syn: cordially, warmly]

Usage examples of "heartily".

Even the High Federalists heartily approved of John Adams as they never had.

I prayed heartily to the one true God that these heathen Aethiops of strangely advanced science will continue to treat our people as well as they did on our first day of contact.

Their delicate forms, that of a stag and a doe, looked out of place in the modern, heartily built Alaskan house.

She chuckled heartily and Donny pranced up and down, yapping his little white and black Lhapso Apso head off, demanding her attention.

Boldly I performed the chasse en avant and chasse en arriere glissade, until, when it came to my turn to move towards her and I, with a comic gesture, showed her the poor glove with its crumpled fingers, she laughed heartily, and seemed to move her tiny feet more enchantingly than ever over the parquetted floor.

When Ascot came up on the outside of the field, the last horse drifted over into his path, his rider waving his whip wildly in the air and yelling heartily.

At Bangalore, no English prisoners had been found, and he was heartily glad when he heard that it was the intention of Lord Cornwallis to march directly upon Seringapatam.

His mind kept going round and round the cellar at home, and wishing heartily that Monsieur Bianchi had been sent here.

This massive effort at planting was a development that Anne Blenheim understood was fairly new, and of which she heartily approved both esthetically and as an affirmation of life.

Liversidge added that Courtney Broadhead was a white man, a phrase that Alleyn had never cared for and of which he was heartily tired.

I have had the name of Beau Brummell dinned into my ears until I am heartily sick of it!

Mephis is dead and that after his death the counterrevolutionists struck and completely routed the Zani overlords, of whom the people, including the majority who claimed to be Zanis, were heartily sick.

Easter court in Speyer, and heartily glad to have left behind the barbaric crudity, the squalor and monotony of the Danubian fortresses for the amenities of more civilized surroundings near the Rhine.

Unbathed, unshaven, heartily in need of mulled wine to cut the inhospitable northcoast chill, Lord Diegan drummed his gloved fingers on the hilts of his weapons and allowed that he had not.

By August 1522 he became convinced that the time was ripe for action, and issued a manifesto proclaiming that the feudal dues had become unbearable, and giving the impression that he was acting as an ally of Luther, although the latter knew nothing of his intentions and would have heartily disapproved of his methods.