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/hˈɑrtəli/ Listen

adverb

Heartily adv.

From the heart; with all the heart; with sincerity. "I heartily forgive them."

With zeal; actively; vigorously; willingly; cordially; as, he heartily assisted the prince.

To eat heartily, to eat freely and with relish.

Synonyms: Sincerely; cordially; zealously; vigorously; actively; warmly; eagerly; ardently; earnestly.

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Etymology of 'Heartily'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Heartily" Quotes from Famous Books

... was and we heartily congratulate our Sister Scouts! But if we do our duty by our Patrol and the Patrols all do their duty by their Troop, that proud moment is going to come to every single Scout of us, when the town where we live tells us by its smiles and ...

— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts

... is an odd thing, it is a quaint thing, it is a thing that would seem inconceivable (were we not tolerably acquainted with the vagaries of the reading public) that a book of this sort should lie perdu on the shelves of a few libraries. Yet one must not leap too heartily to the wrong conclusion. The reading public is avid of good books, but it does not hear about them. Now we would venture to say that we know fifty people—nay, two hundred and fifty—who would never have done thanking us if we could lay a copy of a book of this sort in their hand. They ...

— Pipefuls • Christopher Morley

... imagining that the documents themselves were the revelation. They are merely the record of a personal communion with the transcendent. It was Lessing who first cast these fertile ideas into the soil of modern thought. They were never heartily taken up by Kant. One can think, however, with what enthusiasm men recurred to them after their postulates had been verified and the idea of God, of man and of the world which they implied, had been confirmed by ...

— Edward Caldwell Moore - Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant • Edward Moore

... should give him eighteen. His eagerness, as well as the manner in which he handled his tools, convinced me of his inexperience, and I accepted the proposal;—but, to my surprise, he won the game. He laughed so heartily at the event, and conducted himself so extravagantly, that I felt persuaded the thing was accidental. He proposed doubling the stakes, which I refused; yet I agreed to play him for the same sum as before, but giving him only fourteen. By some chance he won again; and then I declined playing ...

— The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims - Volume II (of II) • Andrew Steinmetz

... Elizabeth heartily joined in her cousin's merriment. 'I will tell you what I do mean, Anne, what the great law of society is. Now, do not put on that absurd face of mock gravity, or I shall only laugh, ...

— Abbeychurch - or, Self-Control and Self-Conceit • Charlotte M. Yonge

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