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ASSUREDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does assuredly mean? 

ASSUREDLY (adverb)
  The adverb ASSUREDLY has 1 sense:

1. without a doubtplay

  Familiarity information: ASSUREDLY used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ASSUREDLY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Without a doubt

Context example:

the grammar schools were assuredly not intended for the gentry alone

Pertainym:

assured (marked by assurance; exhibiting confidence)


 Context examples 


If you feel thus, we shall assuredly be happy, however present events may cast a gloom over us.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

When he is found the whole business will assuredly be put to his account.’ I could see no other way out of it, so we did as he suggested.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mine eye catches at times a flash and sparkle among yonder houses which assuredly never came from shipman's jacket or the gaberdine of a burgher.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Assuredly, pleasant enough: but whether healthy or not is another question.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

If this man could afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But then they would assuredly have taken their rifles with them.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And always Edith replied that he would assuredly be dealt with according to law.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Assuredly.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Thus would she assuredly act if her darkened eyes opened and she beheld me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“I will take your orders, gentles; I will assuredly take your orders,” the landlady answered, bustling in with her hands full of leathern drinking-cups.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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