Pacifically

adv

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a calm or quiet manner.

    "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."

  2. 2
    In a soothing manner.

    "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 […]"

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a peaceable manner wordnet

Etymology

From pacific + -ally.

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