Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a pacific manner; peaceably; peacefully.
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- adverb In a
calm orquiet manner. - adverb In a
soothing manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a peaceable manner
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Examples
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Venezuela is a place where "pacifically" blocking a highway to protest against the government is considered a right protected by the Constitution.
Elio Cequea's message to Obama: Do you see my point, Mr. President? 2009
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I have told these people: try blocking Pennsylvania Avenue with trash to protest "pacifically" against the US government.
Elio Cequea's message to Obama: Do you see my point, Mr. President? 2009
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How "pacifically" the labor movement that originated in France in 1848, and spread throughout Europe, was likely to proceed, we may judge by its constant outbreaks kindred to the recent bomb-throwing in Paris.
Woman and the Republic — a Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates Helen Kendrick Johnson 1880
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She used to say it all the time, even extending the word into 'pacifically' when she meant 'specifically'.
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Good to see "pacifically" featuring heavily here too.
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I have told these people: try blocking Pennsylvania Av. with trash to protest "pacifically" against the US government.
Venezuela Analysis 2009
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Venezuela is a place where "pacifically" blocking a highway to protest against the government is considered a right protected by the Constitution.
Venezuela Analysis 2009
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Exhibit B: when people say 'pacifically' when they mean 'specifically'.
unknown title 2009
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I have told these people: try blocking Pennsylvania Av. with trash to protest "pacifically" against the US government.
Venezuela Analysis 2009
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Venezuela is a place where "pacifically" blocking a highway to protest against the government is considered a right protected by the Constitution.
Venezuela Analysis 2009
garyth123 commented on the word pacifically
in kath'n'kim a confusion with specifically
Sharon might ask "How do you mean, pacifically?"
December 8, 2008