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Calmly

Calmly \Calm"ly\, adv. In a calm manner.

The gentle stream which calmly flows.
--Denham.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
calmly

1590s, from calm (adj.) + -ly (2).

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calmly

adv. In a calm manner.

WordNet
calmly
  1. adv. with self-possession (especially in times of stress); "he spoke calmly to the rioting students"

  2. in a sedate manner [syn: sedately]

Usage examples of "calmly".

Only Abel kept his composure and calmly imposed silence on his people again.

Onol of Aceta, calmly washing up in the death chamber of O-Mai the Cruel.

Trying to respond as calmly as possible, Adams wrote and burned three letters in succession.

Diana Estes calmly held out her arm for the tourniquet and squeezed her hand open and shut several times to plump up her antecubital vein.

When at length all was again in readiness for a start, Donald calmly assumed the position of steersman in the stern, at the same time motioning the Zebra to take his place among the paddlers.

They sprinted down the hallway and into the foyer, where Blackpool stood, calmly holding the door.

He glared across the bridge at her, and she gazed calmly back, an angel of death in bloodred leathers.

He resolved to take it calmly, however, and to give way to no show of feeling, hoping that thus the boys would soon forget to tease him.

The Patent Leather Kid calmly, and swung his car wide so that Bill Brakey would have a clear shot around the side of the windshield.

Tenfold village searching for a Miss Bunsen, and finally you calmly allow me to endanger my life jumping off an express train at ninety miles an hour.

Perolla saw Hannibal, clad in the gown of a Capuan senator, moving calmly in their midst.

Hempie had, indeed, taken the news of the Crabapple Blossoms very calmly.

Lady Diana smiled back at her as her maid calmly began to lay out gowns over a decoupage screen.

Now I can reason calmly, And, looking back again, Can see divinest meaning Threading each separate pain.

Sometimes she would be assisted by a giant figure, black as a bible and stripped to the waist, an unrecognizable apprentice who, obedient as a djin, would calmly execute her every order.