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Willingly

Willingly \Will"ing*ly\, adv. In a willing manner; with free will; without reluctance; cheerfully.
--Chaucer.

The condition of that people is not so much to be envied as some would willingly represent it.
--Addison.

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willingly

adv. Of one’s own free will; freely and spontaneously.

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willingly

adv. in a willing manner; "I willingly accept" [syn: volitionally] [ant: unwillingly]

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Willingly

"Willingly" is a duet by country music singer Willie Nelson and Shirley Collie, produced by Joe Allison during Nelson's third session for Liberty Records. Released in March 1962, the album reached number ten on Billboard's Hot Country Singles.

Usage examples of "willingly".

Willingly assenting to this, Heliobas read the extract over again, Alwyn taking down the words from his dictation.

When Drizzt put the barghest off balance, Kempfana willingly toppled, meaning to crush the wiry little elf.

Eugenia, while she appeared to her so blameless, that she could merit no evil, was so amiable, that willingly she would have borne for her their united portions.

I can scarcely bear to review the times to which I allude: the moral degradation, blent with the physical suffering, form too distressing a recollection ever to be willingly dwelt on.

The supposed aboriginal stocks must all have been rock-pigeons, that is, not breeding or willingly perching on trees.

After dinner Ap-Llymry made him finish a bottle of mead, which he willingly accepted, both as an excuse to remain and as a drink of the dark ages, which he had no doubt was a genuine brewage from uncorrupted tradition.

It is not worth this pains in my own eyes--and thirsted for by my fellow men--it is a burthen I would willingly lay down.

Grudgingly at first, then more willingly as she artfully drew him into a more expansive discussion, Macro talked to her in a way he had never before with a woman.

Derrick, who made rude noises as he tried to straighten, Mandy found herself going willingly.

How willingly would I have exchanged a full-scale attempt at invasion for this shapeless, measureless peril, expressed in charts, curves, and statistics!

I succumbed to his ministrations, exploring his body willingly as he touched mine.

Exactly when the first subtle monition of treachery reached him, by what sense it was conveyed-Hulse never learned, for there were experiences among the finer perceptions that the blind man did not willingly discuss.

Emperor who willingly provisioned the Vulgar Holy War, even though he knew it was almost certain to be destroyed.

Had Reas exacted an hundred gold marks instead of two paltry marks of silver, I should willingly have given him them.

It is said that the warriors to be sacrificed not only went willingly but thought they were in the arms of the gods.