Adverb

(en-adv)

Without unwillingness or hesitation; showing readiness.

Without impediment, easily.

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Adverb

(en-adv)

In a widespread or large manner.

For the most part; mainly or chiefly.

*

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On a large scale; amply.

* 1913 ,

Usually there was a jug of one or other decoction standing on the hob, from which he drank largely .

*:"Grand!" he said, smacking his lips after wormwood. "Grand!" And he exhorted the children to try.

(obsolete) Fully, at great length.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:

It ill beseemes a knight of gentle sort, / Such as ye haue him boasted, to beguile / A simple mayd, and worke so haynous tort, / In shame of knighthood, as I largely can report.