| 单词 | by all likelihood | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasby all (also most) likelihood  P1.    by all (also most) likelihood: in all probability, probably. Formerly also  †by likelihood. Now rare.Commoner than of (all) likelihood at  Phrases 2, in (all) likelihood at  Phrases 3   before the 17th cent. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > probability, likelihood > 			[adverb]		 welleOE lightly1395 likely1395 likinglyc1395 by (also of) likeliheadc1405 by (also of) likelinessc1405 by all (also most) likelihood1427 provably1460 of (all) likelihood1491 belike?1531 like1548 belikelya1551 in (all) likelihood1570 probably1600 by (also in) probabilitya1602 in (also by) all probability1617 presumably1658 prob.1730 nigh hand1848 predictably1914 prolly1922 odds-on1976 1427by liklihode [see sense  1a].							 1433    Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI 		(Electronic ed.)	 Parl. July 1433 §17. m. 16  				Þe which had ellys by liklyhode be lost. 1486    Countess of Oxford in  Paston Lett. & Papers 		(2004)	 II. 447  				To the entente, by alle lykelyhod, to finde the waies and meanes to gete him shipping. 1525    Ld. Berners tr.  J. Froissart Cronycles II. clxviii. [clxiv.] 270  				Their speres grated nat; if they had, by moost lykelhod they had taken hurte. 1585    Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xvi. 287  				The eldest & therefore by likelyhoode the discreetest seruaunt of his house. 1629    E. W. tr.  L. Richeome Pilgrime of Loreto xx. 203  				The house of Ioseph (which by likelihood was at Bethleem). 1697    W. Dampier New Voy. around World v. 95  				By all likelihood these ridges of Mountains do run in a continued Chain from one end of Peru and Chili to the other. 1841    Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 750/1  				Homer..would not, by all likelihood, be more archaic in his colouring of style than the Froissart of Lord Berners is to ourselves. 1894    Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 48/2  				One servant..runs away to tell the master of the house that the Devil is at the door..and, ‘By likelihood he is come for your soul.’ 1939    Manch. Guardian 22 Feb. 16/1  				A country with 50,000 fewer people in employment now than it had a year ago is by all likelihood earning less and saving less. 2000    D. N. Chorafas New Regulation Financial Industry xi. 181  				While it is true that public opinion may exercise pressure, by all likelihood this will be felt in an indirect way via legislators. < as lemmas  | 
	
| 随便看 | 
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。