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Pacifically
adv
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Adverb
- 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 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 in a peaceable manner wordnet
Etymology
From pacific + -ally.
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