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ASSUREDLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without a doubt
Example:
the grammar schools were assuredly not intended for the gentry alone
Classified under:
Pertainym:
assured (marked by assurance; exhibiting confidence)
Context examples:
Both were agreed that the monsters were practically brainless, that there was no room for reason in their tiny cranial cavities, and that if they have disappeared from the rest of the world it was assuredly on account of their own stupidity, which made it impossible for them to adapt themselves to changing conditions.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A distrust of myself, which has often beset me in life on small occasions, when it would have been better away, was assuredly not stopped in its growth by this little incident outside the Canterbury coach.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Everybody believed that poor girl to be guilty; and if she could have committed the crime for which she suffered, assuredly she would have been the most depraved of human creatures.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
In truth, hardy as the man was, his neck had been assuredly broken had he not pitched head first on the very midriff of the drunken artist, who was slumbering so peacefully in the corner, all unaware of these stirring doings.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Finally, I will assuredly give some account of the toxodon, the giant ten-foot guinea pig, with projecting chisel teeth, which we killed as it drank in the gray of the morning by the side of the lake.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In his attempts to be particularly lucid, Mr. Barkis was so extremely mysterious, that I might have stood looking in his face for an hour, and most assuredly should have got as much information out of it as out of the face of a clock that had stopped, but for Peggotty's calling me away.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Well, be it so; a deadly struggle would then assuredly take place, in which if he were victorious I should be at peace and his power over me be at an end.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
And, certes, had the two visages alone been seen, and the stranger been asked which were the more likely to belong to the bold warrior whose name was loved by the roughest soldiery of Europe, he had assuredly selected the lady's.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I will assuredly co-operate.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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