jubilantly

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English

WOTD – 30 December 2007

Etymology

jubilant +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

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Adverb

jubilantly (comparative more jubilantly, superlative most jubilantly)

  1. With jubilation or triumph.
    • 1910 - Jack London, Burning Daylight, part II chapter 7
      The socialist press of the city jubilantly exploited this utterance, scattering it broadcast over San Francisco in tens of thousands of paper dodgers.
    • 1922 - Rafael Sabatini, Captain Blood, chapter XXIV
      Having written jubilantly home to the Secretary of State that his mission had succeeded, he was now faced with the necessity of writing again to confess that this success had been ephemeral.

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