Definitions
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- adverb
comparative form ofgladly : moregladly .
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Examples
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There is not any burden that some would gladlier post off to another than the charge and care of their religion.
Areopagitica 2007
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There is not any burden that some would gladlier post off to another than the charge and care of their religion.
Areopagitica 2007
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And the earth at that tyme beyng but clammie and softe, through the attemperaunce of that moysture and heate, man there first to haue bene fourmed, and there to haue gladlier enhabited (as natiue and naturall vnto him) then in any other place, when all places ware as yet straunge, and vnknowen, whiche aftre men soughte.
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The captive's heart nae gladlier beats when set from prison free,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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I gladlier welcome, and willingly I grant it thee.
The Fall of the Niebelungs Margaret [Translator] Armour
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QUOTATION: And touchd by her fair tendance, gladlier grew.
Quotations 1919
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There is nothing (quoth he) that I will do gladlier.
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For when he was constrained to be in prison, he thought he was in heaven, and he received more gladlier beatings and wounds, than others victories.
The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900
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He would gladlier hear causes of unknown men than of his friends, for between them he might freely know the default, and of them to make one his friend for whom by right he might give sentence, and of his friends he was sure to lose one, that was, him against whom he gave the sentence.
The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900
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Now this also they yea-said gladly; forsooth they had scarce been fain of leaving the women behind, at least the younger ones, even had they been safe at the Tofts; for there is no time when a man would gladlier have a fair woman in his arms than when battle and life-peril are toward.
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