Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a conscious manner; with knowledge or intention.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a conscious manner; with knowledge of one's own mental operations or actions.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a conscious manner; knowingly, volitionally.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb with awareness

Etymologies

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conscious +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • But if religion is not consciously vital to the Filipinos, as they themselves would conceive and act on it (and I make the assertion in the assumption that the reader understands as I do by _consciously vital_ that for which the individual or the race is willing to die singly or collectively), the unprejudiced observer must admit that it is vital to their ultimate evolution, vital in just the sense that any function is vital to one who is in need of it.

    A Woman's Impression of the Philippines Mary Helen Fee

  • The characters will begin consciously or unconsciously making preparations for the “journey” or adventure that they will be undergoing throughout the tale.

    Secrets from Blueprints 2010

  • According to the orbs, “As we touch your individual psyches you begin consciously to experience yourselves as intimately connected with all other life forms on this planet and throughout the cosmos.”

    Daniel Pinchbeck’s Glastonbury Orbs Experience | Disinformation 2008

  • How they advertise, however, and whether they do it consciously, is unclear.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • If Her Bad Mommy comes along, for instance, I very much doubt that she'll manage to usurp your place in the blogosphere and if she has developed the name consciously and deliberately in mimicry of you, it's even less likely.

    Community Is Hard. Deal With It. 2008

  • Gold also found that people are using the word consciously – in two ways.

    odds and ends, eh 2007

  • A Church which for so long had preserved Latin consciously as a bond of unity, had quite suddenly decided to discard it as a useless encumbrance.

    11/01/2003 - 12/01/2003 John 2003

  • However, it is critical that developers use the business language in code consciously and as a disciplined rule.

    MSDN Magazine: RSS Feed 2009

  • The model, self-consciously, is the government’s fuel efficiency standards for cars.

    Data Centers Are Becoming Big Polluters, Study Finds - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • The model, self-consciously, is the government’s fuel efficiency standards for cars.

    Data Centers Are Becoming Big Polluters, Study Finds - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

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