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willingly
[ wil-ing-lee ]
adverb
- 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.
Other Word Forms
- ··ɾ·Բ· adverb
- ·ɾ·Բ· adverb
- ܲ·-ɾ·Բ· adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of willingly1
Example Sentences
Increasing that dose - willingly - every day was something he couldn't imagine.
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.
Two Jesuit priests were kidnapped by the government and tortured for several months in 1976; critics accused Bergoglio of willingly handing the men over.
Their wives benefit from their power and visit cruelties on those forced to serve them, but they willingly trade their agency for those perks.
And yet, he willingly subjected himself to 25 minutes of pain and torture.
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