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unˈdoubtedly, adv.
[un-1 11, 5 b; cf. prec.]
1. Without or beyond any doubt; indubitably, assuredly, certainly.
a1500Chester Pl. xiii. 180 Our sonne he is,..And blynde was borne undowtedlye. 1551T. Wilson Logike (1580) 37 By searchyng euery borough he shall haue his purpose vndoubtedly. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. xxxv. 158 b, They (quoth he) are vndoubtedly condemned by nature. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacræ ii. i. §3 The Records under the name of Moses were undoubtedly his. 176.Wilkes Corr. (1805) III. 13 This is undoubtedly the handsomest compliment that has been paid to his present majesty. 1838James Louis XIV, I. 164 He was, however, undoubtedly a man of much courage. 1874Green Short Hist. iii. §6 (1882) 147 The influence which the Friars undoubtedly exerted.
b. Used to introduce a sentence.
1521Wolsey in St. Papers Hen. VIII, VI. 85 And ondowgtydly, by all apparance, He shall prove a very wyse man. 1596Edward III, ii. ii. 20 Vndoubtedly, then, some thing is a misse. 1663Cowley Cutter Coleman St. ii. vii, Undoubtedly they had a Hand in't. 1765Museum Rust. IV. 185 Undoubtedly the farmers will think the charges of this feed too great. 1834J. H. Newman Par. Serm. I. i. 2 Undoubtedly He may prescribe the terms on which He will give it. 1878Seeley Stein II. 160 Undoubtedly this refusal was honourable to him.
†2. In a manner which removes or rejects all doubt; positively, decidedly. Obs.
1513Life Hen. V (1911) 182 When this..Kinge was vndoubtedly acertained of his phisicions that the time of his resolucion approached. 1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. iii. xix. 56 They affirme undoubtedlie, that the divell plaieth Succubus to the man. 1638R. Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. II) 36, I..assure you most undoubtedly, that [etc.]. 1653H. More Antid. Ath. i. ii. §3 The thing that it doth thus resolvedly and undoubtedly reject. |