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Definition of Gallantly
1. Adverb. In a gallant manner. "He gallantly offered to take her home"
Definition of Gallantly
1. adv. In a polite or courtly manner; like a gallant or wooer.
2. adv. In a gallant manner.
Definition of Gallantly
1. Adverb. In a gallant manner, gentlemanly, with social graces. ¹
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Definition of Gallantly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gallantly
Literary usage of Gallantly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"... to their line of breastworks, the Ninety-first Ohio gallantly capturing and
bringing off the field a rifled gun made in Liverpool, a Blakeley's patent. ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1892)
"He stuck gallantly to his work, and went was with a sad heart. In 1806 he went
to Lon- at Stirling in 1820, and, ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"Breach, and some entred the Towne, they were gallantly repulsed, and forced to
retire, with considerable Loss. ..."
4. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"very gallantly board und carry the Spanish man-of-war schooner, Dolores, mounting
one long nine, two four-pounders, and four swivels, with a complement of ..."
5. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"By 1671 the Italian ambassador at Paris writes, " gallantly is the minister
Colbert on his way to bring the ' lavori d'aria' to perfection. ..."
6. History of the World War by Frank Herbert Simonds (1919)
"The Italian campaign of 1917, between May and November, amounted to a gallantly
sustained, terrifically costly endeavour—the third—to burst through that gap ..."
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