ascertainedly

English

Etymology

ascertained + -ly

Adverb

ascertainedly (comparative more ascertainedly, superlative most ascertainedly)

  1. In a way that is ascertained.
    Synonyms: certainly, demonstrably, evidently
    • 1856, John Ruskin, Modern Painters, New York: John Wiley, 1885, Volume 4, Chapter 16, p. 228,
      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.
    • 1977, Coral Bell, The Diplomacy of Detente, New York: St. Martin’s Press, Chapter 11, p. 201,
      [] 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.
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