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A certain Thomas was encouraged to, unquestionably
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doubtless
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adv. with certainty; "it's undoubtedly very beautiful" [syn: undoubtedly , beyond question , without doubt , beyond any doubt ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Doubtless \Doubt"less\, a. Free from fear or suspicion. [Obs.] Pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure. --Shak.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Characterized by or experiencing no doubt at all, certain; undoubted; undoubting. 2 (context obsolete English) Free from fear or suspicion. adv. Without doubt; very probably, in all likelihood; doubtlessly.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c. (adv.), mid-15c. (adj.), from doubt (n.) + -less . Related: Doubtlessly .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Your payments will doubtless rise in the second year. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As a Stalinist, Nizan was doubtless reassured that prompt action to deal with the anti-Soviet activities had been taken. ▪ Higher value-added ...
Usage examples of doubtless.
Even now they are doubtless marching on this camp, for they were sent by Menelek to punish Achmet Zek and his followers for a raid upon an Abyssinian village.
Marshal Shastylt doubtless revealed, matters on Acorus are not as we would wish.
Thus doubtless it happened that both Algonkins and Iroquois had a myth that in the great lakes dwelt a monster serpent, of irascible temper, who unless appeased by meet offerings raised a tempest or broke the ice beneath the feet of those venturing on his domain, and swallowed them down.
Richard and Amerie could have slept for days, but with the sunrise came a distant howling of amphicyons angling up the ridge from the south, and they realized that the Tanu were going to do their utmost to prevent the escape of Felice, whose role in the massacre had doubtless been betrayed by some recaptured prisoner.
With this not altogether admirable object in view, his experiments upon freezing animals were doubtless made.
She answered that she would doubtless have found herself in very great difficulties, but that she had all along felt certain of my love, and that she had foreseen what had happened.
In other cases, like that of the adoption of Hadrian by Trajan, or of the death of Antinous, the author has tried to leave that very incertitude which before it existed in history doubtless existed in life itself.
But he was exceedingly jolly withal, and welcomed the Yankees with pompous good-humor, despatching a sergeant for a jug of applejack, which was doubtless as inexpensive to the major as his other hospitality.
If Lady Appleton left him in charge at Appleton Manor when she returned to Leigh Abbey, he would doubtless become an important member of the local community.
That such a force had ever existed within the vicinity in historic times seemed most unlikely, and Tarzan conjectured, therefore, that the wall and the gate were of almost unthinkable antiquity, dating, doubtless, from the forgotten age of the Atlantians, and constructed, perhaps, to protect the builders of the Palace of Diamonds from the well-armed forces that had come from Atlantis to work the gold mines of Opar and to colonize central Africa.
Many hundreds of ruins have been examined by Mr Bandelier, and doubtless the classification above afforded a convenient working basis for the region with which he is most familiar, the basin of the Rio Grande and its tributaries.
Sharpe could not see the Mahratta army beyond their guns, but doubtless the bastards were there in force.
On opening a cacao pod, it is seen to be full of beans surrounded by a fruity pulp, and whilst the pulp is very pleasant to taste, the beans themselves are uninviting, so that doubtless the beans were always thrown away until .
Its blooms have the quality of keeping clean, doubtless from the smoothness of the florets.
That my very thoughts are conveyed to Erik Bonebreaker at Offleah and thence, doubtless, to Earl Guthrum in London.