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Thankfully

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a thankful manner; giving thanks.

    "Gratiano: […]I owe you much, and, like a wilful youth That which I owe is lost; but if you please To shoot another arrow that self way Which you did shoot the first, I do not doubt, As I will watch the aim, or to find both, Or bring your latter hazard back again, And thankfully rest debtor for the first."

  2. 2
    fortunately, gratefully. proscribed, sometimes

    "I was almost late for work, but thankfully there wasn't much traffic on the roads."

Adverb
  1. 1
    let us be thankful that wordnet
  2. 2
    in a thankful manner; with thanks wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English thankfully, thankefully, þonkfulliche, from Old English þancfullīċe, equivalent to thankful + -ly.

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