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willingly

[ wil-ing-lee ]

adverb

  1. in a consenting and often cheerful way:

    They volunteer for duty on faraway battlefields, willingly putting their lives on the line to fight and possibly die for their country.



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Other Word Forms

  • ··ɾ·Բ· adverb
  • ·ɾ·Բ· adverb
  • ܲ·-ɾ·Բ· adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of willingly1

First recorded before 900; equivalent to willing ( def ) + -ly ( def )
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Increasing that dose - willingly - every day was something he couldn't imagine.

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But what Trump misses is why we have those cards in the first place: because other countries willingly tied themselves to U.S.-led systems.

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Two Jesuit priests were kidnapped by the government and tortured for several months in 1976; critics accused Bergoglio of willingly handing the men over.

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Their wives benefit from their power and visit cruelties on those forced to serve them, but they willingly trade their agency for those perks.

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And yet, he willingly subjected himself to 25 minutes of pain and torture.

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