pacifically

Definitions

adv

1

In a calm or quiet manner.

The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds.

2

In a soothing manner.

To arrange and compose pacifically, the differences which may arise between the Federal States; and, should the same not succeed, to point out to the Supreme Chief the measures which should be adopted to re-establish peace and harmony […]

Collocations

3

VERB + PACIFICALLY

arrange, compose, shone

PACIFICALLY + NOUN

differences, sky

PREP.

without

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adverb — in a peaceable manner

peaceably

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inl

Wiktionary

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To arrange and compose pacifically, the differences which may arise between the Federal States; and, should the same not succeed, to point out to the Supreme Chief the measures which should be adopted