"alacritously" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From alacritous + -ly.",
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          "ref": "1847, anonymous author, chapter VII, in The Mistletoe: A German Tale of Christmas. […], London: Thomas Allman, […], →OCLC, page 129:",
          "text": "Wilhelm got up, and alacritously advanced.",
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          "text": "Lowering his field-glasses, the King looked hard at his interlocutor for a few seconds, and then, without a word, turned his horse’s head, and cantered off in the direction of Gorze, alacritously followed by his illustrious and numerous Staff.",
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          "ref": "1987, Jaan Puhvel, “Celtic Myth”, in Comparative Mythology, Baltimore, Md., London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, published 1988 (2nd printing), →ISBN, part II (Traditions), page 185:",
          "text": "Like Achilles, he alacritously chose a short life of fame and in short order developed into a full-blown berserk, complete with contortions (riastrad: eye trick, mouth stretched from ear to ear, hair standing on end as if by static electricity, magic halo [lūan lāith ‘warrior’s moon’] over his head), but also subject to the multiple geis or tabu that shadows the Irish hero.",
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          "ref": "2003 July 18, Rowan Forster, “Who says it's immature to ban a graphic film?”, in The Age, Melbourne, Vic., →ISSN, archived from the original on 2020-08-11:",
          "text": "Is it really a sign of maturity that our insatiable craving for ever-increasingly explicit \"entertainment\" takes precedence over the moral health and, dare I say, the spiritual wellbeing, of our society and its citizens? Or that shared values once held as vital to our social cohesion are alacritously abandoned in our relentless pursuit of the next turn-on, or the next \"artistic\" outrage for outrage's sake?",
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        "In an alacritous manner."
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          "text": "Lowering his field-glasses, the King looked hard at his interlocutor for a few seconds, and then, without a word, turned his horse’s head, and cantered off in the direction of Gorze, alacritously followed by his illustrious and numerous Staff.",
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          "text": "Like Achilles, he alacritously chose a short life of fame and in short order developed into a full-blown berserk, complete with contortions (riastrad: eye trick, mouth stretched from ear to ear, hair standing on end as if by static electricity, magic halo [lūan lāith ‘warrior’s moon’] over his head), but also subject to the multiple geis or tabu that shadows the Irish hero.",
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