gallantly

Synonyms for gallantly

adv courageously

adverb. courteously

1550s, "showily," from gallant + -ly (2). Meaning "with exaggerated courtesy" is from 1610s.

He took the hand which she extended and, bending over it, kissed it gallantly.

We gallantly declared that we thoroughly agreed with these principles of the toilette.

"It is very kind of you to return at all," replied Dan, gallantly enough.

"You may have seen twenty summers," gallantly conjectured Vivian.

A few of them gallantly reached the Turkish trenches and fell there.

"That was more fortunate for your family than it was for my sex," said Nelson, gallantly.

The Colonel said gallantly: "I don't expect there's much to forgive."

"I will not refuse a service you offer me so gallantly," said she.

"With all my strength and wit," he answered, readily and gallantly.

And then gallantly, "If I can offer you my services, I'd be glad to take you home at night——"