ascertainedly
English
Etymology
ascertained + -ly
Adverb
ascertainedly (comparative more ascertainedly, superlative most ascertainedly)
- 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.