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UNDOUBTEDLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without doubt; certainly
Example:
it's undoubtedly very beautiful
Synonyms:
doubtless; doubtlessly; undoubtedly
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Context examples:
This is full proof undoubtedly; proof of every thing you were saying.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
I repeat it: there is no other way; and undoubtedly enough of love would follow upon marriage to render the union right even in your eyes.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
At home I should undoubtedly have given vent to my anguish; but this new and elemental environment seemed to call for a savage repression.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Besides, he is undoubtedly a valuable dog, as dogs go in Alaska, and that is sufficient explanation of your desire to get possession of him.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
We all followed his movements with our eyes, for undoubtedly some nervousness was growing on us, and we saw a whole mass of phosphorescence, which twinkled like stars.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
But I hope your friend's accounts have been exaggerated; and if such a design is known beforehand, proper measures will undoubtedly be taken by government to prevent its coming to effect.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
My grocery will undoubtedly refuse me credit now.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Its productions and features may be without example, as the phenomena of the heavenly bodies undoubtedly are in those undiscovered solitudes.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The method was undoubtedly a step forward, as it allowed for more cost-effective diagnosis.
(New method to classify brain tumour in children, SciDev.Net)
