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Webster 1913 Edition
Carefully
Care′ful-ly
,adv.
In a careful manner.
Webster 1828 Edition
Carefully
CAREFULLY
,adv.
1.
With care, anxiety, or solicitude.Though he sought it carefully with tears. Heb. 12.
2.
Heedfully; watchfully; attentively; as, consider these precepts carefully.If thou carefully hearken to the Lord. Deut. 9.
3.
In a manner that shows care.Envy, how carefully does it look. Collier.
4.
Providently; cautiously..Definition 2024
carefully
carefully
English
Adverb
carefully (comparative more carefully, superlative most carefully)
- (obsolete) Sorrowfully.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.8:
- there was she faine / To call them all in order to her ayde, / And them conjure, upon eternall paine, / To counsell her, so carefully dismayd, / How she might heale her sonne […].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.8:
- With care; attentively, circumspectly.
- As he was a politician, he discussed all subjects carefully, not offending anyone. He carefully studied the papers, while planning his next move. He carefully avoided the subject all evening.
- 1915, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger, chapter II:
- Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean. ¶ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
Translations
in a careful manner
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