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Definition of Merrily

1. Adverb. In a joyous manner. "They shouted happily"

Definition of Merrily

1. adv. In a merry manner; with mirth; with gayety and laughter; jovially. See Mirth, and Merry.

Definition of Merrily

1. Adverb. In a cheerful or merry manner. ¹

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Definition of Merrily

1. merry [adv] - See also: merry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Merrily

Literary usage of Merrily

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1870)
"merrily, merrily, pipes the merle, merrily lilts the throstle, merrily sings the milking girl, Kitty M'Cree o' Tossell. Singing still by the meadow gate, ..."

2. Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England: Taken Down by James Henry Dixon (1857)
"FULL merrily sings the cuckoo Upon the beechen tree; Your wives you well should look to, If you take advice of me. Cuckoo! cuckoo! alack the morn, ..."

3. The Poems of Charles Fenno Hoffman by Charles Fenno Hoffman (1873)
"merrily, merrily sound the bells As o'er the ground we roll, ... merrily, merrily sound the bells Upon the wind without, When the wine is mull'd and the ..."

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