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Safely

//ˈseɪfli// adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a safe manner; without risk; using caution above all else.

    "With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]"

  2. 2
    In a secure manner; without the possibility of injury or harm resulting.

    "Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cassock stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells."

Adverb
  1. 1
    with safety; in a safe manner wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English savely; equivalent to safe + -ly.

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