delightedly

English

Etymology

From delighted +‎ -ly.

Adverb

delightedly (comparative more delightedly, superlative most delightedly)

1. In a delighted manner.
   • 1800, Friedrich Schiller, The Piccolomini, or the First Part of Wallenstein, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, London: Longman & Rees, Act II, Scene IV, p. 82,^[1]

     For fable is Love’s world, his home, his birth-place:

     Delightedly dwells he ’mong fays and talismans,

     And spirits; and delightedly believes

     Divinities, being himself divine.

   • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 126:

     Reappearing, tape-measure in hand, he went into the bedroom and took slow and accurate measurements, whistling delightedly to find that his pre-mortem theoretical calculations and post-mortem practical measurements hardly varied.

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 15, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

     […] cards were exchanged, and social visits that were never going to happen were delightedly agreed on.