peacefully
part of speech
adverb
meaning for a pupil
1) Peacefully means in a calm, quiet way. tree →
2) Peacefully means without fighting or violence. tree →
3) (euphemism) «Died peacefully» is a gentle way to say someone died without pain or struggle. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: Job notes that the wicked sometimes live in ease and die quietly. The tradition treats this as a hard question about why the wicked can prosper. In the primary lessons: In stories it describes sleeping and calm scenes. In citizenship: solving arguments peacefully. In death notices and family talk «passed away peacefully» softens sad news.
examples
- They spend their days in prosperity, and peacefully they go down to the grave. (Writings JOB.21.13, JPS 1917) tree →
- The cat slept peacefully on the sofa. tree →
- Let's solve this peacefully, without shouting. tree →
- The crowd left peacefully. tree →
- (euphemism) Grandad died peacefully in his sleep. tree →
- The ducks floated peacefully on the pond. tree →
- The two teams shook hands peacefully. tree →
- The baby was breathing peacefully. tree →
- They lived peacefully side by side. tree →
- He lay down and slept peacefully. tree →
note
Adverb from «peaceful» + -ly: double l, peacefully. The euphemism use is soft and polite for sad news.
In the corpora
- They spend their days in prosperity, and peacefully they go down to the grave.
- A picket line is striking workers standing outside their workplace with signs, peacefully asking others not to go in.
- When people want something changed, they can protest peacefully, sign a petition, or stop work together in a strike.
- "Slipped away" means died quietly and peacefully.
- Canada became independent step by step and peacefully, not through a revolution.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «peacefully» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.