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单词 undoubtedly
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undoubtedlyadv.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈdaʊtᵻdli/, U.S. /ˌənˈdaʊdədli/
Forms: Also Middle English undowtly, 1500s undoutly.
Etymology: un- prefix1 5; compare undoubted adj. and adv.
1.
a. Without or beyond any doubt; indubitably, assuredly, certainly.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > absolute certainty > [adverb]
withouten wantrukea1225
without missa1275
dreadlessc1369
doubtlessc1386
certainlya1400
sadly?a1425
questionlessc1425
undoubtablyc1425
doubtlesslyc1440
unsoilablyc1445
undoubtablec1450
undoubteda1500
undoubtedly?a1500
infallibly1502
indefeasibly1540
undubitately1548
indubitatelya1552
undoubting1552
undoubtingly1552
indoubtedly1563
indoubtly1606
unquestionably1611
questionlessly1612
indubitably1624
undoubtfully1628
uncontrollably1629
irrefragably1635
ungainsayably1637
inquestionablya1641
indubiously1642
unquestionedly1644
incontrollably1646
incontrovertibly1646
indisputably1646
acknowledgedly?1649
inexpugnably1653
uncontrovertablya1658
undubitably1660
inconfutably1664
uncontrollably1676
irrefutably1681
uncontestedly1699
undisputably1707
uncontestably1709
incontestablya1711
uncontrovertibly1755
undisputedly1778
(and) no mistake1818
unchallengeably1827
without resort1827
undeniedly1837
unappealably1840
indubitativelya1853
irrecusably1862
uncontradictably1862
inescapably1881
unarguably1888
sho1893
sure1894
posilutely1914
hands down1936
?a1500 Chester Pl. xiii. 180 Our sonne he is,..And blynde was borne undowtedlye.
1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Ivj By serching euery borough, he shall haue his purpose vndoubtedlie.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xxxv. 158 b They (quoth he) are vndoubtedly condemned by nature.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. i. §3 The Records under the name of Moses were undoubtedly his.
a1770 Wilkes Corr. (1805) III. 13 This is undoubtedly the handsomest compliment that has been paid to his present majesty.
1838 G. P. R. James Life & Times Louis XIV I. 164 He was, however, undoubtedly a man of much courage.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iii. §6. 147 The influence which the Friars undoubtedly exerted.
b. Used to introduce a sentence.
ΚΠ
1521 T. Wolsey in State Papers Henry VIII (1849) VI. 85 And ondowgttydly, by all apparance, He shall prove a very wyse man.
1539 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes (1552) 48 Undoutly, nothynge is more hurtfull to a man, then selfe loue is.
1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. D2v Vndoubtedly then some thing is a misse. View more context for this quotation
1663 A. Cowley Cutter of Coleman-St. ii. vii. 20 Undoubtedly they had a hand in't.
1765 Museum Rusticum 4 185 Undoubtedly the farmers will think the charges of this feed too great.
1834 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. I. i. 2 Undoubtedly He may prescribe the terms on which He will give it.
1878 J. R. Seeley Life & Times Stein II. 160 Undoubtedly this refusal was honourable to him.
2. In a manner which removes or rejects all doubt; positively, decidedly. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > [adverb] > conclusively, decisively
undoubtedly1487
concludentlya1575
signanter1579
definitely1581
peremptorily1582
ratifiedly1593
categorically1603
peremptorly1606
lastly1612
perfixedly1613
concludingly1640
decidingly1646
categorematically1654
signantly1656
full-mouthedly1681
conclusively1749
decidedly1764
decisively1789
catecheticallya1834
so1994
1487 King Henry VII in H. Anstey Epistolae Academicae Oxon. (1898) II. 517 Oure extent in thys partie shalbe undowtly executed.
1513 Life Henry V (1911) 182 When this..Kinge was vndoubtedly acertained of his phisicions that the time of his resolucion approached.
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft iii. xix. 72 They affirme vndoubtedlie, that the diuell plaieth Succubus to the man.
1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 36 I..assure you most undoubtedly, that [etc.].
1653 H. More Antidote against Atheisme i. ii. §3 The thing that it doth thus resolvedly and undoubtedly reject.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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