heartily, adv.
(ˈhɑːtɪlɪ)
[f. hearty a. + -ly2. Cf. also heartly adv.]
In a hearty manner.
1. With full or unrestrained exercise of real feeling; with genuine sincerity; earnestly, sincerely, really; with goodwill, cordially.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 20054 Qua hertili hers or redis it. c 1385 Chaucer L.G.W. 1492 Hypsipyle, Myn lady quod he thanke I hertyly. 1596 Shakes. Merch. V. iv. i. 243 Most heartily I do beseech the Court To giue the iudgement. 1631 T. Powell Tom All Trades 142 To bid all his guests welcome right heartily. 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to Lady Rich 17 June, I really could not forbear laughing heartily at your letter. 1751 Johnson Rambler No. 174 ¶14 No man heartily hates him at whom he can laugh. 1868 Farrar Silence & V. ii. (1875) 47 To repent heartily is to be forgiven wholly. |
2. With courage, zeal, or spirit; spiritedly, zealously.
| c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 15954 Þe hertiloker on þem he brak. 1612 in Crt. & Times Jas. I (1849) I. 168 Taking his cause, to seeming, very heartily. 1719 De Foe Crusoe i. i, The Men rowing very heartily. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 55 The people never fought heartily for their masters. |
3. With good appetite; to the satisfaction of appetite, abundantly, amply.
| a 1613 Overbury A Wife (1638) 210 He breaks his fast heartilest while hee is making a grave. 1725 De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 275 We made no dinner this day, having fed heartily in the morning. 1733 Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. ix. §7 (1734) 215 Advice to Persons of weak Nerves..to drink a Bottle heartily every Day. 1874 G. W. Dasent Half a Life III. 172 No man..ever devoured his food more heartily. |
4. Abundantly, plenteously; to the full, completely, thoroughly; exceedingly, very.
| 1686 N. Cox Gentl. Recreat. v. (ed. 3) 67 Follow the Dogs three quarters speed, that he may sweat heartily. 1719 De Foe Crusoe ii. v, They..were..heartily beaten. 1727 Arbuthnot John Bull iii. vi, Old Lewis Baboon was..heartily sick in mind of his last Law-Suit. 1839 James Louis XIV, II. 244 The citizens had..become heartily tired of the war. |