Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Careful reflection or consideration; circumspection; due attention to the arguments for and against; caution.
- noun Slowness in decision or action.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being deliberate; calm consideration; circumspection.
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- noun the state or property of being
deliberate
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- noun the trait of thoughtfulness in action or decision
- noun a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry
Etymologies
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Examples
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A certain deliberateness characterized his attitude.
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A certain deliberateness characterized his attitude.
Chapter 3 1903
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He claimed the Afikaans community had granted the new government sufficient time to prove its bona fides and felt there was an element of "deliberateness" which could no longer be suffered in silence.
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It was history's odd timing: A great historical rupture in the Arab world, bearing within it the promise of remaking a flawed political tradition that knew no middle ground between despotism and nihilistic violence, happened on the watch of an American president proud of his deliberateness and his detachment from history's passions.
Obama's Holbrooke Moment Fouad Ajami 2011
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That being said, one was undeniably richer in its deliberateness.
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At the tank, traffic splits into two lone channels through which thousands of humans will pass, their papers and cars reshuffled by guards who work with the deliberateness of furious watchmakers.
La Frontera Jeff Questad 2011
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This started out an exercise designed to tame my mind, to approach my life in words with a deliberateness that can only come by stamping on the breaks.
Quiet City Connor Tomas O'Brien 2011
brtom commented on the word deliberateness
In my acceptance of twentieth-century realities there has had to be a certain deliberateness, whereas most of my contemporaries had them simply by being born to them. Wendell Berry "A Native Hill"
July 19, 2008