BRAVELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bravely mean? 

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

1. in a courageous manner

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRAVELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a courageous manner

Synonyms:

bravely; courageously

Context example:

bravely he went into the burning house

Pertainym:

brave (possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching)

 Context examples 

That she was frightened and bewildered, and that she was bravely striving to hide it, was quite plain to me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Now the Scarecrow, who had expected to see the great Head Dorothy had told him of, was much astonished; but he answered her bravely.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I could see that he spoke as bravely as he could to comfort Harker.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The little tailor went bravely up, spoke to him, and said: Good day, comrade, so you are sitting there overlooking the wide-spread world!

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

"It sounded as if you were praying," she said bravely, but she felt herself inside to be withering and shrinking.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Down went Jo's face into the wet handkerchief, and she cried despairingly, for she had kept up bravely till now and never shed a tear.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I see her as a lovely woman with kind, dove鈥檚 eyes, somewhat short of stature it is true, but carrying herself very bravely.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Plainly said and bravely spoken, my suckling friar,” roared a deep voice, and a heavy hand fell upon Alleyne's shoulder.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Dave and Sol-leks, dripping blood from a score of wounds, were fighting bravely side by side.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

They were making out to me, in an agitated way—I don't know how, for the little I could hear I was scarcely composed enough to understand—that the lifeboat had been bravely manned an hour ago, and could do nothing; and that as no man would be so desperate as to attempt to wade off with a rope, and establish a communication with the shore, there was nothing left to try; when I noticed that some new sensation moved the people on the beach, and saw them part, and Ham come breaking through them to the front.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)