All 7 Uses of
deliberate
in
Childhood's End
- There could be no doubt that its scholarship and virtuosity, its tantali7ing glimpses of knowledge still untapped were deliberately designed to convince mankind that it was in the presence of overwhelming intellectual power.†
Chpt 2
- Not necessarily through any deliberate act, but in a subtler fashion.†
Chpt 2 *
- I've watched him carefWly this last week, and have deliberately avoided helping him.†
Chpt 3
- They might have had some natural cause, or they might be due to deliberate censorship by the Overlords.
Chpt 6 *deliberate = intentional
- Everything about the Colony was deliberately planned, as the result of many years of study by a group of very remarkable men.†
Chpt 15
- To understand, you must go back into the past and recover much that your ancestors would have found familiar, but which you have forgotten-which, in fact, we deliberately helped you to forget.†
Chpt 20
- Had the Supervisor deliberately let him escape into space, almost a century ago, so that he could return to play the role he was flulfihling now?†
Chpt 24
Definitions:
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(deliberate as in: deliberate insult) to do something intentionally (do it on purpose)
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(deliberate as in: need to deliberate) to think about or discuss -- especially with great care