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considerately, adv.|kənˈsɪdərətlɪ|
[f. considerate + -ly2.]
In a considerate manner.
1. With consideration, thoughtfully, carefully, attentively, discreetly, deliberately. Obsolescent.
1556J. Heywood Spider & F. lxxiii, I besech you consider, consideratlie. 1647Ward Simp. Cobler 65, I may considerately say, I never heard but one Oath sworne. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxxi. 191 To speak Considerately of God. 1665J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 81 If then it were certain that such an Inscription were found..the Disquisition..might be considerately made, otherwise not. 1704Steele Lying Lover i. (1747) 13 What do you stare at so considerately? 1825Southey Paraguay iv. 63 Considerately the Jesuit heard, and bade The youth be called.
2. With consideration or regard for others.
1871H. Ainsworth Tower Hill ii. ix. 52 Since you considerately allow me to choose the hour. 1879McCarthy Own Times I. 425 The measures of the ministers were..treated considerately. |