Dictionary

assuredly en · ADV

Pronunciation

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• /əˈʃɝɪdli/ (General-American)
• /əˈʃʊəɹɪdli/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /əˈʃɔːɹɪdli/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /əˈʃʊɹɪdli/ (General-American)

Etymology

Etymology tree English assured Middle English -ly English -ly English assuredly From assured + -ly.

Meanings

1. In an assured manner; confidently.
   • The hotel owner strode assuredly into the lobby.
2. For sure; certainly.
   • I soon came to think that […] there was something, assuredly, very strange going on […] 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
   • 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; […] 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:

Forms

Deriveds

self-assuredly

Translations (1)

eo certe (for sure certainly)