unquestionablyadv.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. vii. 473/1 He..did..unquestionably vpon the first accruement of the interest..exercise all the offices of the roiall power.

1644 J. Vicars Jehovah-jireh 167 Such a Magistrate unquestionably is this present Lord Major.

1661 A. Cowley Vision Cromwell 54 It was bold unquestionably for a man..so outragiously to murder his Master.

1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 18 Europe is unquestionably, not a little indebted to him.

1789 Lady's Mag. June 292/1 The ladies, unquestionably, would have been dressed most royally.

1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Characters 7/2 Unquestionably a person of great prudence.

1884 F. Temple Relations Relig. & Sci. (1885) viii. 228 Newton's investigations were unquestionably pursued..in reliance on the truth of the uniformity of nature.

1934 J. Rorty Our Master's Voice xix. 302 Although Beecher unquestionably had the authentic Big Idea, he was too neurotic and too blundering ever quite to come through as a successful advertising man.

1973 M. Amis Rachel Papers 15 Chinless elitist and bratty whey-faced lordling that I most unquestionably was, my move to London had nothing to do with any antipathy towards themselves, nor towards the village.

2004 Jewish Chron. 26 Mar. 53/5 This is unquestionably one of the most gruelling and grisly movies I've ever seen.

1615 T. Jackson Justifying Faith ii. v. 193 It is one thing to do that which is vnquestionably right and good; another to do it rightly or well.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. xi. 162 Wherein they conceived themselves to be before unquestionably estated.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 360 It might be made unquestionably evident.

1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. Concl. 138 How unquestionably little,..the Pleasures and Profits of it are at the best.

1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber xvi. 318 Whose Repentance I have been unquestionably inform'd, appear'd [etc.].

1779 S. Johnson Milton in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets II. 137 His literature was unquestionably great.

1846 T. H. Huxley in L. Huxley Life & Lett. T. H. Huxley (1900) I. 28 It is an unquestionably dull day.

1894 J. R. Illingworth Personality iii. 60 Man finds the world outside him to be intensely, unquestionably real.

1939 H. Ellis My Life i. 48 This girl's father belonged to an unquestionably morbid family.

1968 Economist 28 Dec. 21/2 It seemed unquestionably right to establish the teaching profession as a separate civil service beyond the reach of politicians and patronage-mongers.

2011 L. A. Lievrouw Alternative & Activist New Media v. 120 The industry's situation is unquestionably dire.