All 6 Uses of
deliberate
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- I dined, myself, while those numskulls were deliberating which world you should belong to—this, or some other.†
Chpt 2.4 *deliberating = thinking about or discussing
- With that advice, he wiped his soiled hand upon the joker's dress, such as it was—quite deliberately, as having dirtied the hand on his account; and then recrossed the road and entered the wine-shop.†
Chpt 1.5
- As the ancient clerk deliberately folded and superscribed the note, Mr. Cruncher, after surveying him in silence until he came to the blotting-paper stage, remarked: "I suppose they'll be trying Forgeries this morning?"†
Chpt 2.2
- "Then you mean to tell me, Mr. Lorry," said Stryver, squaring his elbows, "that it is your deliberate opinion that the young lady at present in question is a mincing Fool?"†
Chpt 2.12
- You deliberately advise me not to go up to Soho and offer myself—myself, Stryver of the King's Bench bar?†
Chpt 2.12
- He put them, one by one, in the breast of his inner coat, counted out the money for them, and deliberately left the shop.†
Chpt 3.9
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