English

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,

     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.

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 15,

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