PEACEFULLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does peacefully mean? 

• PEACEFULLY (adverb)
  The adverb PEACEFULLY has 1 sense:

1. in a peaceful manner

  Familiarity information: PEACEFULLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEACEFULLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a peaceful manner

Context example:

the hen settled herself on the nest most peacefully

Pertainym:

peaceful (not disturbed by strife or turmoil or war)

 Context examples 

The road led him up a mountain, and when he had reached the highest point of it, there sat a powerful giant looking peacefully about him.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He says it would have been a sin to, for I slept peacefully and was forgetting my trouble.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Do you know, I have forgotten what it is to fall peacefully asleep.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

By my hilt! our little lord is wroth because we have come peacefully through the passes, but I will warrant him that we have fighting enow ere we turn our faces northward again.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Dora and I were sitting on the sofa by and by, quiet enough, and Jip was lying in her lap, winking peacefully at me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He himself slept peacefully and snored aloud, yet my heart was sore for him, wicked as he was, to think on the dark perils that environed and the shameful gibbet that awaited him.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I listened for a while to the behaviour of the Ghost, to the pounding of the seas and the muffled roar of the wind on deck, and then turned over on my side and slept peacefully until morning.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The moon shone peacefully.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The old mother lived peacefully and happily with her children for many years.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

When I came back from the window Lucy had lain down again, and was sleeping peacefully.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)