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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

  • overwillingly adverb
  • prewillingly adverb
  • quasi-willingly 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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“My parents are migrants from El Salvador, and so it’s really personal to me, because it’s U.S. imperialism that impacted our community. ... No one chooses to leave their home. No one willingly wants to leave.”

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In May, he spoke on Iranian TV channel SNN.ir about potentially building a nuclear weapon, and said he would willingly carry out orders to do so if he received them.

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Uprisings have a time and place, but not when they’re a trap you willingly run into.

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Others, though, may have enlisted willingly and completed their one-month training — including physical drills and instruction in firearms — and went on to become cartel operatives.

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Most of those who willingly inhale Trump’s “white genocide” lies wouldn't say flat-out that they want to reinstate apartheid or Jim Crow or slavery.

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