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Joyfully

Joyful \Joy"ful\, a. Full of joy; having or causing joy; very glad; as, a joyful heart. ``Joyful tidings.''
--Shak.

My soul shall be joyful in my God.
--Is. lxi. 10.

Sad for their loss, but joyful of our life.
--Pope. -- Joy"ful*ly, adv. -- Joy"ful*ness, n.

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joyfully

adv. In a joyful manner; joyously.

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joyfully

adv. in a joyous and gleeful manner; "the old man had greeted her gleefully" [syn: gleefully, joyously] [ant: joylessly]

Usage examples of "joyfully".

Joyfully indeed are we preparing for our move to Chantepleurs, where we can rest from the comedy of the Rue de Bac and of the Paris drawing-rooms.

For the first time, one he baptized overshadowed the Baptist, and he allowed it to be so, joyfully accepting the role he had been destined to perform.

Sam Bucher walked beside him, she noted joyfully, giving thanks that he, too, was alive and well.

Bring out the cymbal and drum, set out full pots painted with aloes and sandal-paste: plant plantains, hang on them garlands of flowers, for the Kirtan place joyfully.

Three months afterwards George Gering was joyfully preparing to take two voyages.

Behold then more and more appeared the pomps and processions, attired in regall manner and singing joyfully : One was girded about the middle like a man of armes : Another bare and spare, and had a cloake and high-shooes like a hunter !

Four minutes later the feverish gamblers in the Salles de Jeu were gratified by the sight of a seraph-like child in blue silk pyjamas who flew gaily round the tables pursued by two stout and joyfully excited Southern Europeans in livery.

Then, joyfully, kneeling before me, she put her left cheek down upon my right thigh.

The syndic told them that I was going in two days, and suggested that they should make me stay a day longer in Geneva, and I made this sacrifice joyfully.

Being in the heavyweight class be cast himself joyfully upon his slighter enemy, and they rolled down a flight of stairs in each others arms.

Port Kar could boast the broad Tamber for her sister, and the gleaming, mysterious Thassa beyond, I thought my city to be truly the most beautiful, its variegated lofty cylinders rising so gently, so joyfully, among the calm, green hills.

They went inside, where they met Evan and his wife, Anna, who was obviously and joyfully pregnant with their first child, and the Ballenger brothers, Calhoun and Justin, with their wives Abby and Shelby, all headed toward the front door together.

Pierre told them, joyfully, of attacks on the Cabora Bassa dam on the Zambezi which had delayed that project of exploitation for so many years, upping the ante intolerably for that tiny peasant empire Portugal.

My offer was joyfully accepted, the mother brought her daughter to me, she received the money, and leaving us together in the Garden of the Cross, she went away.

Rayven cried out in surprise, then laughed joyfully, her tears of relief and happiness spilling unchecked down her cheeks.