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certainly (iou)



certainly adverb. ME.
[from CERTAIN + -LY2.]
In a manner that is certain; in a way that may be surely depended on. ME.
b. Exactly. LME-E17.
With certainty; unfailingly; indubitably, assuredly, admittedly; (in answers) without doubt, undeniably, yes (certainly not, (emphatically) no). ME.
b. Fixedly. Now rare. L16.