peaceably
English
Etymology
From Middle English pesibly; equivalent to peaceable + -ly.
Adverb
peaceably (comparative more peaceably, superlative most peaceably)
- In a peaceable manner.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter V, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book III (The Parliament of Paris), page 85:
- Men in helmets have divided that, with swords; men in wigs, with quill and inkhorn, to divide it: and even more hateful these latter, if more peaceably; for the wig-method is at once irresistibler and baser.
- 2022 Joan Vennochi, For a Supreme Court justice, it can’t be ‘privacy for me’ and no right of protest for thee, in: The Boston Globe, July 11, 2022
- All the buck-passing shows a healthy reluctance to shut down free speech, which unlike the right to eat dinner, is explicitly cited in the Constitution, along with the right to peaceably assemble.
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Translations
in a peaceable manner
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