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BEYOND A DOUBT

 Dictionary entry overview: What does beyond a doubt mean? 

BEYOND A DOUBT (adverb)
  The adverb BEYOND A DOUBT has 1 sense:

1. in a manner or to a degree that could not be doubtedplay

  Familiarity information: BEYOND A DOUBT used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BEYOND A DOUBT (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

In a manner or to a degree that could not be doubted

Synonyms:

beyond a doubt; beyond a shadow of a doubt; beyond doubt; indubitably

Context example:

his guilt was established beyond a shadow of a doubt


 Context examples 


That was a fact beyond a doubt, and without an alloy.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Thorpe is too indulgent beyond a doubt; but, however, you had better not interfere.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Bessie supplied the hiatus by a homily of an hour's length, in which she proved beyond a doubt that I was the most wicked and abandoned child ever reared under a roof.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Beyond a doubt it was the Macedonia.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Beyond a doubt, they do wish him to choose Miss Darcy, replied Jane; but this may be from better feelings than you are supposing.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

This set the matter beyond a doubt.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The apples themselves are the very finest sort for baking, beyond a doubt; all from Donwell—some of Mr. Knightley's most liberal supply.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The offence which had been given her father, many years back, she knew; Elizabeth's particular share in it she suspected; and that Mr Elliot's idea always produced irritation in both was beyond a doubt.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

A happy party it appeared to her, all interested in one object: cheerful beyond a doubt, for the sound of merriment ascended even to her.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I do not know what I told her, he replied, impatiently; less than was due to the past, beyond a doubt, and in all likelihood much more than was justified by the future.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)



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