gently

[Gen·tly]

In a gentle manner

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In a gentle manner.

Adverb
with little weight or force; "she kissed him lightly on the forehead"

Adverb
in a gradual manner; "a gently sloping terrain"

Adverb
in a gentle manner; "he talked gently to the injured animal"


adv.
In a gentle manner.


Gently

Gen"tly , adv. In a gentle manner.
My mistress gently chides the fault I made.

In a gentle manner.

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Usage Examples

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.

Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

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