Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Proceeding cautiously, or step by step; advancing tentatively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Proceeding step by step; advancing cautiously.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Proceeding step by step; advancing cautiously.
Etymologies
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Latin pes, pedis, foot + tendere to stretch out: compare Latin tentim by degrees.
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Examples
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I believe his motives are always pure, and his measures often able; but they are endless, and never done with that pedetentous pace and pedetentous mind in which it behoves the wise and virtuous improver to walk.
Sydney Smith Rusell, George W E 1904
pavonine commented on the word pedetentous
Proceeding step by step; advancing cautiously
June 8, 2008