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单词 by all likelihood
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by all (also most) likelihood
P1. by all (also most) likelihood: in all probability, probably. Formerly also †by likelihood. Now rare.Commoner than of (all) likelihood at Phrases 2, in (all) likelihood at Phrases 3 before the 17th cent.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > probability, likelihood > [adverb]
welleOE
lightly1395
likely1395
likinglyc1395
by (also of) likeliheadc1405
by (also of) likelinessc1405
by all (also most) likelihood1427
provably1460
of (all) likelihood1491
belike?1531
like1548
belikelya1551
in (all) likelihood1570
probably1600
by (also in) probabilitya1602
in (also by) all probability1617
presumably1658
prob.1730
nigh hand1848
predictably1914
prolly1922
odds-on1976
1427by liklihode [see sense 1a].
1433 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. July 1433 §17. m. 16 Þe which had ellys by liklyhode be lost.
1486 Countess of Oxford in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 447 To the entente, by alle lykelyhod, to finde the waies and meanes to gete him shipping.
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. clxviii. [clxiv.] 270 Their speres grated nat; if they had, by moost lykelhod they had taken hurte.
1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xvi. 287 The eldest & therefore by likelyhoode the discreetest seruaunt of his house.
1629 E. W. tr. L. Richeome Pilgrime of Loreto xx. 203 The house of Ioseph (which by likelihood was at Bethleem).
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World v. 95 By all likelihood these ridges of Mountains do run in a continued Chain from one end of Peru and Chili to the other.
1841 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 750/1 Homer..would not, by all likelihood, be more archaic in his colouring of style than the Froissart of Lord Berners is to ourselves.
1894 Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 48/2 One servant..runs away to tell the master of the house that the Devil is at the door..and, ‘By likelihood he is come for your soul.’
1939 Manch. Guardian 22 Feb. 16/1 A country with 50,000 fewer people in employment now than it had a year ago is by all likelihood earning less and saving less.
2000 D. N. Chorafas New Regulation Financial Industry xi. 181 While it is true that public opinion may exercise pressure, by all likelihood this will be felt in an indirect way via legislators.
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