assuredly
advUS /əˈʃʊɹɪdli/ · UK /əˈʃʊəɹɪdli/
Etymology From assured + -ly.
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:
- Derived terms
- self-assuredly