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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
deliberate
▶adjective /dɪˈlɪb(ə)rət/
- 1 done consciously and intentionally.
■ fully considered; not impulsive.
- 2 done or acting in a careful and unhurried way.
– derivatives
deliberately adverb,
deliberateness noun,
deliberator noun.
deliberately adverb,
deliberateness noun,
deliberator noun.
– origin ME: from L. deliberat-, deliberare ‘consider carefully’.
'deliberate' also found in these Oxford entries:
abortion
- actual bodily harm
- back pass
- bump
- conscious
- cyberwar
- genetic engineering
- genocide
- grievous bodily harm
- hassle
- hyperbole
- inadvertent
- intentional
- kamikaze
- lite
- measured
- mimesis
- misprision
- obstructive
- parody
- perverse
- prepense
- professional foul
- ratiocination
- scrub
- self-conscious
- self-harm
- self-mutilation
- sensationalism
- soft focus
- strained
- study
- throw
- traffic calming
- wanton
- whitewash
- wilful
- witting
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