Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • With cordiality; heartily; earnestly; with real feeling or affection.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a cordial manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a cordial, warm or friendly manner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a hearty manner

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Examples

  • I know the Sarpent well -- what I call cordially -- and he will never be a tyrant to any thing he loves, though he will expect to be treated himself like a Mohican Chief.

    The Deerslayer James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • All unite in cordially approving this lady's writings.

    The Mother's Book 1831

  • Leaning down, he called cordially into the darkness, "Oberfeldwebel, do come and have some tea.

    THE GREAT ESCAPE BRICKHILL, PAUL 1951

  • She murmured Allen's name cordially, leveling her eyes at him smilingly.

    A Hoosier Chronicle Meredith Nicholson 1906

  • It was a maxim with Lyons that it was desirable to remember everyone he met, and he prided himself on his ability to call cordially by name clients or chance acquaintances whom he had not seen for years.

    Unleavened Bread Robert Grant 1896

  • All the characteristics that make von Balthasar's work so distinctive and valuable are to be found here: breadth of vision, loveliness of style, and an intuitive-contemporary passion that allows him to "pray intellectually and think 'cordially'."

    Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2008

  • All the characteristics that make von Balthasar's work so distinctive and valuable are to be found here: breadth of vision, loveliness of style, and an intuitive-contemporary passion that allows him to "pray intellectually and think 'cordially'."

    "Conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary" 2008

  • The following words are remarkable: "Mr. Pitt, Mr. Dundas and myself had a long conversation upon this point at Wimbledon; and I am satisfied that, if Mr. Addington had entered into the idea cordially,

    William Pitt and the Great War John Holland Rose 1898

  • But at the second she started up and called cordially: "Oh, I'm so glad to see you!

    The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation 1897

  • "cordially" talk to Datu Unsay Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr., "into submitting himself to investigation."

    Davao Today 2009

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