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DOUBTLESS
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without doubt; certainly
Example:
it's undoubtedly very beautiful
Synonyms:
doubtless; doubtlessly; undoubtedly
Classified under:
Context examples:
And in so far I was doubtless right.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Doubtless it was so, and she could take no revenge, for he was not altered, or not for the worse.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Thornfield! that, doubtless, was the name of her house: a neat orderly spot, I was sure; though I failed in my efforts to conceive a correct plan of the premises.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
All this, doubtless, he knew thoroughly, and had, in his cunning, considered well.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
And without attempting any farther remonstrance, she left Fanny to her fate, a fate which, had not Fanny's heart been guarded in a way unsuspected by Miss Crawford, might have been a little harder than she deserved; for although there doubtless are such unconquerable young ladies of eighteen (or one should not read about them) as are never to be persuaded into love against their judgment by all that talent, manner, attention, and flattery can do, I have no inclination to believe Fanny one of them, or to think that with so much tenderness of disposition, and so much taste as belonged to her, she could have escaped heart-whole from the courtship (though the courtship only of a fortnight) of such a man as Crawford, in spite of there being some previous ill opinion of him to be overcome, had not her affection been engaged elsewhere.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Whatever they may have been, however, she may now, and hereafter doubtless WILL turn with gratitude towards her own condition, when she compares it with that of my poor Eliza, when she considers the wretched and hopeless situation of this poor girl, and pictures her to herself, with an affection for him so strong, still as strong as her own, and with a mind tormented by self-reproach, which must attend her through life.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The man on the bicycle was doubtless a member of those week-end parties at the Hall of which the publican had spoken, but who he was, or what he wanted, was as obscure as ever.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, figure, and the colour of your hair.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Doubtless we are on the track of the missing boxes.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Who is doubtless proud of you.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
