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English
Etymology
From Middle English savely; equivalent to safe + -ly.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈseɪfli/
- Hyphenation: safe‧ly
Adverb
safely (comparative more safely or (rare) safelier, superlative most safely or (rare) safeliest)
- In a safe manner; without risk; using caution above all else.
1992, Rudolf M Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page vii:With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get […]
- In a secure manner; without the possibility of injury or harm resulting.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cassock stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.
1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm , London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:It had been agreed that they should all meet in the big barn as soon as Mr. Jones was safely out of the way.
Translations
in a secure manner; without the possibility of injury or harm resulting
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