OBLIGINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does obligingly mean? 

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

1. in accommodation

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OBLIGINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In accommodation

Synonyms:

accommodatingly; obligingly

Context example:

obligingly, he lowered his voice

Pertainym:

obliging (showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others)

 Context examples 

'The lock of hair, (repeating it from the letter,) which you so obligingly bestowed on me'—That is unpardonable.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

She obligingly consented to act as mediatrix in the matter.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The surprise of the rest of the family, on hearing who their visitor had been, was very great; but they obligingly satisfied it, with the same kind of supposition which had appeased Mrs. Bennet's curiosity; and Elizabeth was spared from much teasing on the subject.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Couldn't we invent a rich relation, who shall obligingly die out there in Germany, and leave him a tidy little fortune? said Laurie, when they began to pace up and down the long drawing room, arm in arm, as they were fond of doing, in memory of the chateau garden.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A momentary hush; the orchestra leader varies his rhythm obligingly for her and there is a burst of chatter as the erroneous news goes around that she is Gilda Gray's understudy from the "Follies."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)