self-evidentlyadv.
/ˌsɛlfˈɛvᵻd(ə)ntli/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfˈɛvədəntli/ In a self-evident manner; obviously.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > evident certainty > [adverb] > self-evidently
axiomaticallyc1643
self-evidently1665
self-evidencingly1677
postulationally1913
1665 J. Sergeant Sure-footing in Christianity 118 Tradition is self-evidently a certain method of conveying down matters of Fact as they were found.
1696 W. Lorimer Remarks Goodwins Disc. vii. 40 The Major Proposition is self evidently false, when stript of its Identical dress.
1702 T. Emes Vindiciæ Mentis ix. 71 If something be so Self-Evidently, and clearly known, that no Definition can be given of them, to desire to have them defin'd, is Idle.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 498 All voluntary labour..appears an oddity and strangeness, and by that mark must needs be self-evidently wrong.
1809 St James's Chron. 7 Apr. Sir C. Price thought that the first of the Resolutions was so self-evidently true, that there was no voting against it.
1886 Law Times 82 77/1 Any alteration in the terms of a contract which is not self-evidently for the benefit of the surety.
1938 R. Aldington Let. 24 Feb. (2003) 239 I am very sorry indeed that you have been troubled by this canard, and I can only assure you that it is self evidently a lie.
1982 I. Hamilton Robert Lowell viii. 104 The Thomas line was self-evidently short on meter, scholarly allusion and..intelligence.
2004 Independent 20 Sept. 16/3 Persian classical music..is self-evidently the product of a musical aristocracy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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