Definition of Deliberately

1. Adverb. With intention; in an intentional manner. "I did this by choice"


2. Adverb. In a deliberate unhurried manner. "She was working deliberately"
Exact synonyms: Measuredly
Partainyms: Deliberate, Measured

Definition of Deliberately

1. adv. With careful consideration, or deliberation; circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose deliberately formed.

Definition of Deliberately

1. Adverb. Intentionally, or after deliberation; not accidentally. ¹

2. Adverb. Taking one's time, slowly and carefully. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Deliberately

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deliberately

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Literary usage of Deliberately

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"this result was attained simply by a skilful use of words: in this case very probably by a deliberately malicious use of words that should make a theatre ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"Then she deliberately smoothed the table-cover, which did not really need smoothing, and at last inquired in her dry acid tones — "Now, you know all about ..."

3. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1921)
"Urban rent is sometimes deliberately created; is it then economic rent? 95. § 1. Urban rent resembles in essentials the rent of agricultural land. ..."

4. Lectures, Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the World's Famous by John Lawson Stoddard (1897)
"... and an indifferent servant, summoned in hot haste, at length deliberately climbed a ladder, removed the nest, and stuffed the hole with a newspaper! ..."

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