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, chapter XVI, in Modern Painters […], volume IV, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part V (Of Mountain Beauty), page 234:
      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, chapter 11, in The Diplomacy of Detente,‎, New York: St. Martin’s Press, page 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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