VIGILANTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vigilantly mean? 

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

1. in a watchful manner

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIGILANTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a watchful manner

Synonyms:

vigilantly; watchfully

Pertainym:

vigilant (carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger)

 Context examples 

No company, a walk, a family dinner of four, and an evening of looking over books and pictures; Miss Murdstone with a homily before her, and her eye upon us, keeping guard vigilantly.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The man who travelled, loud-stepping, the direct line to the cabin door, he let alone—though he watched him vigilantly until the door opened and he received the endorsement of the master.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Then the clothes-bags were taken into the carriage, the strange gods and the love-master followed, and White Fang pursued, now running vigilantly behind, now bristling up to the running horses and warning them that he was there to see that no harm befell the god they dragged so swiftly across the earth.

(White Fang, by Jack London)