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probably, adv.|ˈprɒbəblɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
In a probable manner or degree; with probability.
1. In a way that approves itself to one's reason for acceptance or belief; plausibly; in a way that seems likely to prove true; with likelihood (though not with certainty). Now rare.
1535Starkey Let. in England (1871) p. xxx, You wrote so probably that hyt put me in a feare of daungerys to come. 1551T. Wilson Logike (1580) I j b, Logike is an Art to reason probablie on both partes, of all matters that be putte forthe, so ferre as the nature of euery thing can beare. 1572J. Jones Bathes of Bath Ep. Ded. 3 The first of these bookes probablie proueth the discent of Bladud. 1678Hobbes Decam. viii. 100 This your Hypothesis..by which you have so probably salved the Problem of Gravity. a1774Goldsm. Hist. Greece I. 342 With a party of thirty men only, as Nepos says; but, as Xenophon more probably says, of near seventy. 1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 28 More than he could probably hope to make by any transaction in the Alley.
2. As a qualification of the whole statement: As is likely; so far as evidence goes; in all probability; most likely. Now the ordinary use.
1613Sherley Trav. Persia 101 Now that we haue iudged of all, we must resolue..of that which is probabliest best. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §6 A source, from whence those waters of bitterness..have..probably flowed. 1692O. Walker Grk. & Rom. Hist. 86 Secespita, an Hatchet, probabilier a Knife, to kill the Beast. 1774Pennant Tour Scot. in 1772, 251 The present stones were probably substituted in place of these [= It is probable that the present stones were substituted]. 1860Maury Phys. Geog. Sea (Low) xii. §551 The River Tigris is probably evaporated from the upper half of this sea by these winds. 1882Med. Temp. Jrnl. I. 101 Probably both causes operate to account for the failure to perceive the difference. |