Actively
['æktivli]
Definition
(adv.) in an active manner; 'he participated actively in the war'.
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Definition
(adv.) In an active manner; nimbly; briskly; energetically; also, by one's own action; voluntarily, not passively.
(adv.) In an active signification; as, a word used actively.
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Examples
- And again the woman anxiously and actively fingered the mattress and added up in her mind and bargained with the old, unclean man. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- For this spirit can be actively present only when certain conditions are met. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- John Stevens, the most celebrated boat builder and engineer of his day, was actively experimenting in America in the same line. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Research is stimulated, actively aroused, and a passionate zeal suffuses what is perhaps the most spontaneous reform enthusiasm of our time. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Oliver was rendered the more anxious to be actively employed, by what he had seen of the stern morality of the old gentleman's character. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I was not actively ill-used. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The doctors know that he is best with her, and when not actively engaged about him, stand aloof. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He was small and bent, and perhaps not actively strong; yet he was as tough as an old yew-tree, and as crusty as an old jackdaw. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- France took up the work actively, its most successful early vessel being the Narval, built in 1899. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- German submarines were actively engaged in trying to torpedo these monitors and the British monoplane was useful for giving the range to the ship and reporting the accuracy of the shots. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In an instant, the other two were on their legs, and all were actively engaged in busy preparation. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- A habit does not wait, Micawber-like, for a stimulus to turn up so that it may get busy; it actively seeks for occasions to pass into full operation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It is not enough to see to it that education is not actively used as an instrument to make easier the exploitation of one class by another. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He was not vigorous enough in evil to be actively malignant--he merely passed by sheepishly with a rated, scowling look. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- So much for the capacity of a man to occupy himself actively, and to move about from place to place under the influence of opium. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- All the more reason, therefore, for an attitude of mind which actively welcomes suggestions and relevant information from all sides. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Not infrequently he is actively engaged in the manipulation of some compound of special intricacy, whose results might be illuminative of obscure facts not patent to others than himself. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Their value lies in their use to increase the meaning of the things with which we have actively to do at the present time. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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