GALLANTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gallantly mean? 

• GALLANTLY (adverb)
  The adverb GALLANTLY has 1 sense:

1. in a gallant manner

  Familiarity information: GALLANTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GALLANTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a gallant manner

Synonyms:

chivalrously; gallantly

Context example:

he gallantly offered to take her home

Pertainym:

gallant (being attentive to women like an ideal knight)

 Context examples 

Our mares laid themselves out gallantly, and the distance between us began slowly to decrease.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But they were gallantly rallied by their old chief and came on with such a rush that the ape-men began in turn to give way.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Those who are showing the world what female manners should be,” said Mr. Bertram gallantly, “are doing a great deal to set them right.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

With all my heart, if you will be a brave St. Martin, stopping as you ride gallantly through the world to share your cloak with the beggar.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

As the prince spoke, amid a loud flourish of trumpets and the shouting of the Gascon party, the last of the assailants rode gallantly into the lists.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was in great spirits all the way; and when we parted, and I looked after him going so gallantly and airily homeward, I thought of his saying, Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race! and wished, for the first time, that he had some worthy race to run.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It is a picture, and I can see it now,—the jagged edges of the hole in the side of the cabin, through which the grey fog swirled and eddied; the empty upholstered seats, littered with all the evidences of sudden flight, such as packages, hand satchels, umbrellas, and wraps; the stout gentleman who had been reading my essay, encased in cork and canvas, the magazine still in his hand, and asking me with monotonous insistence if I thought there was any danger; the red-faced man, stumping gallantly around on his artificial legs and buckling life-preservers on all comers; and finally, the screaming bedlam of women.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Laurie and his friends gallantly threw themselves into the breach, bought up the bouquets, encamped before the table, and made that corner the liveliest spot in the room.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

How many of our ancestors have done the same, save only that a sword-hilt lay in their closed hands; but of them all I do not know that any have carried themselves more gallantly!

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Of course, Demi tyrannized over Daisy, and gallantly defended her from every other aggressor, while Daisy made a galley slave of herself, and adored her brother as the one perfect being in the world.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)