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deliberately, adv.|dɪˈlɪbərətlɪ|
[f. deliberate a. + -ly2.]
In a deliberate manner.
1. With careful consideration; not hastily or rashly; of set purpose.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 575/2 He..dooeth deliberatelye with long deuice and studye bestowed about it, doe this geare willingly. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 243, I..deliberately compared one with the other. 1748Hartley Observ. Man ii. ii. §43. 188 To deceive the world knowingly and deliberately. 1892Law Times' Rep. LXVII. 232/1 Omitted..through inadvertence and not deliberately and on purpose.
2. Without haste, leisurely, slowly.
1711Steele Spect. No. 147 ⁋2 Those that Read so fast..may learn to speak deliberately. 1774Pennant Tour Scotl. in 1772, 169 They swim very deliberately with their two dorsal fins above water. 1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) II. iv. i. 228, I tread deliberately this summit's lonely edge. |