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单词 willingly
释义 willingly, adv.|ˈwɪlɪŋlɪ|
(Also 5 welyngly, 7 wollinglie.)
[OE. willendlíce: see willing ppl. a. and -ly2.]
In a willing manner (in various senses of the adj.).
1.
a. Intentionally, deliberately, wilfully. Obs.
c1386Chaucer Clerk's T. 306 Heere I swere that neuere willyngly In werk ne thoght I nyl yow disobeye.1402Hoccleve Let. Cupid lvi, Sauf willyngly the feende deceyued Eve.1531Tindale Expos. 1 John ii. (1538) 17 b, God is lyghte, and therfore..no man which wyllinglye walketh in the vnfrutefull workes of darknesse, hath ony fellowshyp wyth that lyght.1550Crowley Way to Wealth 521 Wittinglye and willinglye..ye haue..disobeied youre kinge.1590Shakes. Mids. N. iii. ii. 346 Still thou mistak'st, Or else committ'st thy knaueries willingly [Qo's wilfully].1622in Foster Engl. Factories Ind. (1908) II. 132 That nyght, wee carryinge the lighte, the Dutch (as wee suppose) lost us willinglye.1727De Foe Syst. Magic i. iii. (1840) 78 Men that do not willingly deceive the people, or that at least have not a wicked design to deceive.1748in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. i. 302, I will not willingly stand in any body's way.
b. Of one's own will, voluntarily. Obs.
1552Abp. Hamilton Catech. (1884) 43 Thai ar content to do it willingly without ony compulsioun.1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, v. iii. 61. 1617 Moryson Itin. i. 205, I had no remedie but to pay those Crownes for him,..if I had not rather chosen willingly to doe it.1695Ld. Preston Beeth. i. 12 note, For this he was banished his Country, or rather willingly left it.
2. With a ready will, consentingly, without reluctance: with various shades of meaning from ‘with acquiescence, submissively’ to ‘with pleasure, cheerfully, gladly’ or ‘wishfully, eagerly’.
Often with would: would willingly = should like to; would not willingly = would rather not, should be loth to.
a1000in Wr.-Wülcker Voc. 222/20 Diligenter, willendlice.
1538Elyot, Libenter, wyllyngely, gladly.1549Cheke Hurt Sedit. K j b, And so be contented to byde the ende willingly, which set on the beginning wilfully.1559J. Aylmer Harborowe M 2, Thou maist the rather, the willinglier, and gladlier do it.1560Pilkington Expos. Aggeus (1562) 159 They would not willingly serue hym, whiche woulde not willingly serue and obey their God and kinge.a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. xx. (1912) 279 To bring us (as willingly-caught fishes) to bite at her baite.1592–3in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. iii. iv. 109, I may neither dispose of my owne..as others usuallie doe, and I willingliest would.1600Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. iv. 95, I like this place, and willingly could Waste my time in it.1603Meas. for M. v. i. 481, I craue death more willingly then mercy.1649in Spalding Club Misc. (1852) V. 380, I sall werey wollinglie concwre withe them.1653Walton Angler iv. 115, I would willingly fish on the Lee-shore.1711Steele Spect. No. 254 ⁋3, I would willingly give you a little good Advice.1835in Cornwallis New World (1859) I. 364 Their cheerful and willingly-offered services.1859Tennyson Geraint & Enid 1056 ‘Friend, let her eat; the damsel is so faint.’ ‘Yea, willingly,’ replied the youth.1881Besant & Rice Chapl. Fleet i. vi, Often have I observed one..of the sisters willingly go without her dinner..in order that her portion might be reserved for Mr. Stallabras.
b. fig. Readily, easily. Obs.
1600Surflet Country Farm iii. lxv. 581 The vttermost pilling of common walnuts, whether it shale willingly or no.1615Crooke Body of Man vii. x. 456 If the braine had been one entire massie substance, it would not so willingly and gladly as we say, haue risen and falne in the Systole and Diastole.
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