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CONSERVATIVELY
conservatively, cautiously, guardedly
(adverb) in a conservative manner; “we estimated the number of demonstrators conservatively at 200,000.”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adverb
conservatively (comparative more conservatively, superlative most conservatively)
In a conservative manner
Source: Wiktionary
CONSERVATIVE
Con*serv"a*tive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. conservatif.]
1. Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
2. Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.
3. Of or pertaining to a political party which favors the conservation of existing institutions and forms of government as the Conservative party in england; -- contradistinguished from Liberal and Radical. We have always been conscientuously attached to what is called the Tory, and which might with more propierty be called the Conservative, party. Quart. Rev. (1830). Conservative system (Mech.), a material sustem of such a nature that after the system has undergone any series of changes, and been brought back in any manner to its original state, the whole work done by external agents on the system is equal to the whole work done by the system overcoming external forces. Clerk Maxwell.
Con*serv"a*tive, n.
1. One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver. The Holy Spirit is the great conservative of the new life. Jer. Taylor.
2. One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical.
3. (Eng. Hist.)
Definition: A member of the Conservative party.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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