pacifically
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]pacifically (comparative more pacifically, superlative most pacifically)
- In a calm or quiet manner.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 194:
- The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds.
- In a soothing manner.
- 1828, British and Foreign State Papers, page 962:
- To arrange and compose pacifically, the differences which may arise between the Federal States; and, should the same not succeed, to point out to the Supreme Chief the measures which should be adopted to re-establish peace and harmony […]
Synonyms
[edit]- (in a calm manner): calmly, mildly, quietly
- (in a soothing manner): soothingly