The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contemplatively \Con*tem"pla*tive*ly\, adv. With contemplation; in a contemplative manner.
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adv. In a contemplative manner.
Usage examples of "contemplatively".
He is contemplatively sucking on a sugar flower when he decides that what he experienced on the bima was God.
A general theme running throughout the Idealist writersand indeed, a theme found in virtually all of the mystically or contemplatively oriented philosopher-sages the world overis that finite things, finite holons, are somehow profoundly lacking, or even profoundly contradictory, in and of themselves.
Men, irrigating in the silver fields, paused, leaning contemplatively on their shovel handles, to listen.
Colleen bit into a deviled egg and chewed contemplatively while she awaited his answer.
He sipped contemplatively at the pale liquid maintained at just above the freezing point by the thermotic tumbler.
He examined it leisurely, almost contemplatively, stooped over the cockpit, turned the steering wheel which offered no resistance to his hand, then straightened.
The way led more gently upward now, through rock-studded grassland where Welsh Black cattle grazed here and there, or stood contemplatively in the middle of the road.