ascertainedly
advEtymology From ascertained + -ly.
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In a way that is ascertained.
- The reader was, perhaps, surprised by the smallness of the number to which our foregoing analysis reduced Alpine summits bearing an ascertainedly peaked or pyramidal form.1856, John Ruskin, chapter XVI, in Modern Painters […], volume IV, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part V (Of Mountain Beauty), page 234:
- […] in the ordinary bargaining of daily life, over for instance the sale of a house or a car or setting the level of a salary or fee, if one found that the price proposed to the would-be buyer was consistently and ascertainedly beyond the level he was likely to pay, one would be entitled to conclude that whoever was proposing that price was an enemy to a bargain’s actually being struck.1977, Coral Bell, chapter 11, in The Diplomacy of Detente,, New York: St. Martin’s Press, page 201: