Consciously
['kɑnʃəsli]
Definition
(adv.) with awareness; 'she consciously played with the idea of inviting them'.
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Definition
(adv.) In a conscious manner; with knowledge of one's own mental operations or actions.
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Examples
- It is the nature of an experience to have implications which go far beyond what is at first consciously noted in it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Consciously the pupil thinks he is doing this. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- How numerous and varied are the interests which are consciously shared? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Miss Lavinia looked consciously at Miss Clarissa, and heaved a little sigh. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Children do not set out, consciously, to learn walking or talking. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- There may be coarse hypocrites, who consciously affect beliefs and emotions for the sake of gulling the world, but Bulstrode was not one of them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- What one man can consciously devise, other men can understand. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- As a rule, they have such an aim consciously when they find themselves resisted; when others are doing things they do not wish them to do. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Action with a purpose is deliberate; it involves a consciously foreseen end and a mental weighing of considerations pro and eon. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He laughed rather consciously; and though denying the sentiment, Emma was convinced that it had been so. Jane Austen. Emma.
- But it would not leave him and he felt, consciously, all of this becoming like a dream. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Both involve ends consciously entertained and the selection and adaptations of materials and processes designed to effect the desired ends. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Miss Hannah, who was conceited, dashing, pushing, flourished hers consciously and openly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The Greek laughed consciously, but did not contradict the old man. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Mrs. Snagsby consciously asked why. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Rousseau consciously set aside the problem of nationality or citizenship; he was cosmopolitan, and explicitly renounced the idea of planning the education of a Frenchman or a Swiss. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Much which has been said so far is borrowed from what Plato first consciously taught the world. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Mrs. Bulstrode was not an object of dislike, and had never consciously injured any human being. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The important social philosophies are consciously or otherwise the servants of men's purposes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She heard his words in her unconscious self, CONSCIOUSLY she was as if deafened, she paid no heed to them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The advantages were mutual: we were both unconsciously and consciously teaching each other. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Knowledge is not just something which we are now conscious of, but consists of the dispositions we consciously use in understanding what now happens. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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