assuredly

English

Etymology

From assured +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /əˈʃʊɹɪdli/, /əˈʃɝɪdli/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈʃʊəɹɪdli/, /əˈʃɔːɹɪdli/
  • Hyphenation: as‧sur‧ed‧ly
  • Audio (US):(file)

Adverb

assuredly (comparative more assuredly, superlative most assuredly)

  1. In an assured manner; confidently.
    The hotel owner strode assuredly into the lobby.
  2. For sure; certainly.
    • 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
      I soon came to think that […] there was something, assuredly, very strange going on […]
    • 1993, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick and Harold Tarrant, “Justice and Duty (i): Socrates Speaks at his Trial: the Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), revised edition, London; New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 38:
      My situation, you see, is as follows: this is my first appearance in a court of law, at the age of seventy; and so I am a complete stranger to the language of this place. Now if I were really from another country, you would assuredly excuse me if I spoke in the manner and dialect in which I had been brought up; […]
      Naturally in the 1st edition (1954).

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