Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With thought or reflection; consciously; deliberately.
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- adverb With
thought orthinking .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In lesson one we learned that it's "thinkingly" Catholic to defend politicians who justify sucking brains out of little children, as long as you condemn politicians who justify waterboarding.
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The poem and the lecture, then, combine to present an image of gardening or cultivation as a practice which, engaged in with an appropriate sensibility—-engaged in 'thinkingly', as Heidegger would say—-embodies more saliently than any other practice the truth of the relation between human beings, their world, and the 'ground’ from which the 'gift' or this world comes.
Archive 2009-04-01 enowning 2009
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The poem and the lecture, then, combine to present an image of gardening or cultivation as a practice which, engaged in with an appropriate sensibility—-engaged in 'thinkingly', as Heidegger would say—-embodies more saliently than any other practice the truth of the relation between human beings, their world, and the 'ground’ from which the 'gift' or this world comes.
enowning enowning 2009
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We may all go to the devil, but at least we can do it thinkingly.
Wittenberg – review 2011
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The problem with the wackos like Bush and McCain is that they do not thinkingly wish America well.
1898 Redux 2006
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This, when considered, is not really a difficult choice to anyone who thinkingly wishes America well.
1898 Redux 2006
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Instead of being so happy about the NAS as some sort of group that sanctions anti-bristlecone remarks, you ought to more thinkingly look at what they said and if you endorse it all and what basis they have for their judgements.
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But it is also evident that he never adhered thinkingly and systematically to the Origenistic doctrines.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Krauth was able thinkingly to write as he did is a problem which still awaits a satisfactory explanation.
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(Aha! Milburd! you think yourself such a lady killer, that a .. this to myself, _thinkingly_).
Happy-Thought Hall 1876
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