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Webster 1913 Edition


Carefully

Care′ful-ly

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adv.
In a careful manner.

Webster 1828 Edition


Carefully

CAREFULLY

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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

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Adverb

carefully (comparative more carefully, superlative most carefully)

  1. (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 [].
  2. 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.

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