gloriouslyadv.
/ˈɡlɔːrɪəsli/, U.S. /ˈɡlɔriəsli/ In a glorious manner.† 1. Boastfully, proudly, vaingloriously. Obsolete.ironical.1834 Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) I. 249 I draw my own conclusions, and most gloriously ridiculous ones they are, I sometimes fancy.
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the mind > emotion > pride > vainglory > [adverb]
for vaingloryc1380
vaingloriously1542
gloriously1566
self-gratulatingly1835
self-exaltingly1874
1566 W. Adlington tr. Apuleius .XI. Bks. Golden Asse sig. Aiv He gloriously calleth him selfe, the nourice of Carthage.
1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor ii. i. sig. Pivv I speake it not gloriously, nor out of affectation. View more context for this quotation
1602 J. Clapham Hist. Eng. 59 Such as before the Battell were so wary and wise in aduenturing..after the euent..grew to speake gloriously of themselues.
1660 tr. M. Amyraut Treat. conc. Relig. i. v. 73 How gloriously they vaunt of their inventions.
2. With an accompaniment of glory or renown; illustriously.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [adverb] > gloriously
gloriouslya1340
transplendently1664
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > famous or eminent person > [adverb]
gloriouslya1340
greatlya1400
flourishly1558
famously1579
heroically1583
renownedly1583
distinguishedlya1745
brilliantly1813
lustrously1849
legendarily1953
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter Cant. 503 Gloriously he is worshipid.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xiii. 17 Al the peple ioyede in al thingis, that weren don gloriously of him.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. liii. f. xviii Whenne that this Kymbalyne had reygned gloryously ouer the Brytons by all the season before expressyd he dyed and was buryed.
1622 (?a1513) W. Dunbar Poems (Reidpeth) (1998) I. 65 The [royall Stewartis].. syne of great renoun Thow gart vpspring, with branches new and greine, Sa gloriouslie quhill glaidid all the toun.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 165. ¶1 Our Warriors..are so gloriously successful in beating down their Power.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 137 This narrow pass of Thermopylae, where Leonidas and the three hundred Spartans had gloriously devoted their lives.
1841 G. P. R. James Brigand xiv The purpose may..pass away, war be continued gloriously and long, and France be ruined.
3. Brilliantly, splendidly; †brightly, lustrously. Now only with emotional connotation; cf. glorious adj. 4, 5.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adverb] > and nobly or splendidly
micklelyeOE
highlyeOE
freelyOE
dearworthlyc1230
gloriously1393
dearworthilya1400
farrandlyc1400
stately?a1439
finely?1552
gallantly1552
goldenly1580
rarely1581
sightly1592
superbly1769
splendidly1774
splendiferously1841
swell1856
in there1944
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xx. 15 The glose gloryousliche was wryte wyth a gylt penne.
c1400 Three Kings Cologne 5 Gloriously propheciede of þe Incarnacioun of oure lorde Ihesu Crist.
c1420 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 823 Gloryously besene, as he had come from heuyn.
1529 J. Frith Pistle Christen Reader xl. sig. Mvi Tombes wel gilt with many a torch & greate solemnyte, with Angels gloriouslye portered.
1595 L. B. in E. Spenser Astrophel sig. H3v Those beames Of vertue kindled in his noble brest, Which after did so gloriously forth shine.
c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 174 The House without is most magnificently built, nor lesse gloriously furnish'd.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xv. 427 These Rings when first polished look very gloriously, but time makes them fade, and turn to a pale yellow.
1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 18 Apr. (1965) I. 349 I never saw any thing so gloriously Beautifull.
1868 ‘H. Lee’ Basil Godfrey's Caprice xxxvi. 197 The children enjoyed it gloriously.
1871 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David II. Ps. xxxii (heading) David wrote this gloriously evangelic Psalm.
1885 Manch. Examiner 10 Sept. 5/5 This morning the weather opened gloriously fine.
4. colloquial. With reference to intoxication. (Cf. glorious adj. 6.)
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adverb] > degrees of drunkenness
royally1773
gloriously1785
nicely1851
footless drunk1927
paralytically1969
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 510 Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids! Gloriously drunk obey th' important call!
1843 A. Bethune Sc. Peasant's Fire-side 50 Dr. Bridges was in a state which may be described as gloriously drunk.
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