adverb
- with great care or caution; warily.
adjective
- cautious, careful, or wary.
adverb
- in a cautious, reluctant, or timid manner
adjective
- cautious, reluctant, or timid
1510s, “elegantly, daintily,” perhaps from Old French gensor, comp. of gent “dainty, delicate,” from Latin gentius “(well)-born” (see gentle). Meaning “extremely cautiously” is from c.1600.