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IN ALL PROBABILITY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
With considerable certainty; without much doubt
Example:
in all likelihood we are headed for war
Synonyms:
belike; in all likelihood; in all probability; likely; probably
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Context examples:
He had sworn to quit the neighbourhood of man and hide himself in deserts, but she had not; and she, who in all probability was to become a thinking and reasoning animal, might refuse to comply with a compact made before her creation.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
By Jane, this attention was received with the greatest pleasure, but Elizabeth still saw superciliousness in their treatment of everybody, hardly excepting even her sister, and could not like them; though their kindness to Jane, such as it was, had a value as arising in all probability from the influence of their brother's admiration.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Miss Tilney met her with great civility, returned her advances with equal goodwill, and they continued talking together as long as both parties remained in the room; and though in all probability not an observation was made, nor an expression used by either which had not been made and used some thousands of times before, under that roof, in every Bath season, yet the merit of their being spoken with simplicity and truth, and without personal conceit, might be something uncommon.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
A short, a very short time however must now decide what Willoughby's intentions were; in all probability he was already in town.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
You know, I suppose, that unless the matter is cleared up, Mrs. Barclay, who is an old friend of yours, will in all probability be tried for murder.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In all probability he was already the richer of the two, and the Kellynch estate would as surely be his hereafter as the title.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
In all probability she was at this very time waited for there; and Mr. Knightley might be preserved from sinking deeper in aggression towards Mr. Elton, if not towards William Larkins.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Her father's house would, in all probability, teach her the value of a good income; and he trusted that she would be the wiser and happier woman, all her life, for the experiment he had devised.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Elizabeth, though she did not credit above half of what was said, believed enough to make her former assurance of her sister's ruin more certain; and even Jane, who believed still less of it, became almost hopeless, more especially as the time was now come when, if they had gone to Scotland, which she had never before entirely despaired of, they must in all probability have gained some news of them.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It was no wonder that the general should shrink from the sight of such objects as that room must contain; a room in all probability never entered by him since the dreadful scene had passed, which released his suffering wife, and left him to the stings of conscience.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
