All 3 Uses of
deliberate
in
Brave New World
- Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.
p. 69.1deliberate = intentional
- "What a wonderfully intimate relationship," he said, deliberately outrageous.
p. 112.0 *deliberately = intentionally
- His first night in the hermitage was, deliberately, a sleepless one.
p. 244.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(deliberate as in: deliberate insult) to do something intentionally (do it on purpose)
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(2)
(deliberate as in: need to deliberate) to think about or discuss -- especially with great care
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(3)
(deliberate as in: a deliberate thinker) done with great care -- often slowly