alacritously
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In an alacritous manner.
Example Sentences
- "Wilhelm got up, and alacritously advanced."
- "Lowering his field-glasses, the King looked hard at his interlocutor for a few seconds, and then, without a word, turned his horse’s head, and cantered off in the direction of Gorze, alacritously followed by his illustrious and numerous Staff."
- "Like Achilles, he alacritously chose a short life of fame and in short order developed into a full-blown berserk, complete with contortions (riastrad: eye trick, mouth stretched from ear to ear, hair standing on end as if by static electricity, magic halo [lūan lāith ‘warrior’s moon’] over his head), but also subject to the multiple geis or tabu that shadows the Irish hero."
- "Is it really a sign of maturity that our insatiable craving for ever-increasingly explicit "entertainment" takes precedence over the moral health and, dare I say, the spiritual wellbeing, of our society and its citizens? Or that shared values once held as vital to our social cohesion are alacritously abandoned in our relentless pursuit of the next turn-on, or the next "artistic" outrage for outrage's sake?"
Etymology
From alacritous + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more alacritously (comparative)
most alacritously (superlative)