The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gallantly \Gal*lant"ly\, adv. In a polite or courtly manner; like a gallant or wooer.
Gallantly \Gal"lant*ly\, adv. In a gallant manner.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
adv. In a gallant or gentlemanly manner; with social graces.
WordNet
adv. in a gallant manner; "he gallantly offered to take her home" [syn: chivalrously] [ant: unchivalrously]
Usage examples of "gallantly".
She had invited him to the house to share the midday meal when they came back from Biloxi and then had laughed when Ashton gallantly assured her that her presence was all the nourishment he needed to subsist.
In obedience to the dictates of the blindest prejudices and the most fatuous loyalties they did their utmost to kill men against whom they had no conceivable grievance, and they were in their turn butchered gallantly, fighting to the last.
In spite of the fire of the French artillery in front, and of the Sardinian artillery which swept them in flank, the Russian soldiers pressed most gallantly forward, crossed the aqueduct, and tried to storm the height.
Yates gallantly covered her with his shortcoat, and Justin poured her another cup of tea.
August 10 and ending the fourteenth instant, this army has gallantly fought its way through the fields and forts of Contreras, San Antonio, Churubusco, Molino del Rey, Chapultepec and the gates of San Cosme and Tacubaya into the capital of Mexico.
Of the Boer attacks upon British posts to which allusion has been made, that upon Belfast, in the early morning of January 7th, appears to have been very gallantly and even desperately pushed.
The Pagevin, Neuve Saint Eustache, Montorgueil, Rambuteau, Beaubourg, and Transnonain barricades were gallantly defended.
On January 6th the Boers delivered their great assault upon Ladysmith--an onfall so gallantly made and gallantly met that it deserves to rank among the classic fights of British military history.
For some hours the Boers gallantly held their ground, and their artillery fire was, as usual, most accurate.
In spite of the barbed-wire entanglements, the Boers most gallantly rushed this position, and their advance was so rapid, or the garrison so slow, that the place was carried with hardly a shot fired.
She wore her golden hair unbound to her waist beneath her golden crown, and when the King came gallantly to her chamber to escort her to the great hall Cressida saw his grey-green eyes light up with the glory of his love for his wife.
But he knew at the same time the Lopez was not responsible for the evil, and dismayed as he had been, still he recalled enough of the nature of the struggle in which he had been engaged, to be aware that Lopez had befriended him gallantly.
He walked up, made small talk, commented on the beauty of the sunset, and then, gallantly, segued into the beauty of her face.
He was a descendant of the Van Winkles who figured so gallantly in the chivalrous days of Peter Stuyvesant, and accompanied him to the siege of Fort Christina.
Square, when a fine-looking female mask struck me gallantly on the shoulder with her fan.