blissfully

English

Etymology

From Middle English blisfully, blisfulliche, blisvolliche, equivalent to blissful +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈblɪsfəli/, /ˈblɪsfli/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈblɪsfəli/, /ˈblɪsfli/
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Adverb

blissfully (comparative more blissfully, superlative most blissfully)

  1. In a blissful, happy or joyful manner.
    • 1834, Heman Humphrey, Miscellaneous Discourses and Reviews:
      What changes will be wrought in the character and condition of mankind, as the millennium advances and rolls blissfully away.
    • 2000, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Love Is a Fire: A Sufi's Mystical Journey Home:
      I walked the blissfully painful path of human love with intoxication and tears, always knowing that love's essence was elsewhere, hidden and yet addictively present.

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