GLORIOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gloriously mean? 

• GLORIOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb GLORIOUSLY has 2 senses:

1. with glory or in a glorious manner

2. blessedly or wonderfully

  Familiarity information: GLORIOUSLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLORIOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With glory or in a glorious manner

Context example:

where others had failed he had gloriously succeeded

Pertainym:

glorious (having or deserving or conferring glory)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Blessedly or wonderfully

Context example:

how gloriously happy she had been during those few fleeting moments of time

 Context examples 

How gloriously my expedition was justified!

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is a great, gloriously coated wolf, like, and yet unlike, all other wolves.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

We continued our systematic survey of the edge of the sodden portion of the moor, and soon our perseverance was gloriously rewarded.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She smiled at me whimsically, gloriously, and I knew there was no need for forgiveness.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Being, by that time, rather tired of this kind of life, and having received new provocation from the butcher, I throw the flower away, go out with the butcher, and gloriously defeat him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He envied Joe, down in the village, rampant, tearing the slats off the bar, his brain gnawing with maggots, exulting in maudlin ways over maudlin things, fantastically and gloriously drunk and forgetful of Monday morning and the week of deadening toil to come.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Nothing could destroy its exquisite oval, its well-nigh classic lines, its delicately stencilled brows, its large brown eyes, clear-seeing and calm, gloriously calm.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)