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Surely   /ʃˈʊrli/   Listen
adverb
Surely  adv.  
1.
In a sure or certain manner; certainly; infallibly; undoubtedly; assuredly. "In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." "He that created something out of nothing, surely can raise great things out of small."
2.
Without danger; firmly; steadly; securely. "He that walketh uprightly walketh surely."





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"Surely" Quotes from Famous Books



... what justice let the world decide. I aver that the accounts were faithfully transmitted. The Imperial Government of the present day, says that the accounts are not in existence—not that I did not transmit them! Surely they ought to blame their predecessors, not me. Let this history decide which of the two is deserving ...
— Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, - from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 2 • Thomas Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald
... to beg you, sir, not to go further with this business. Surely the punishment is already enough!" ...
— The Marquis of Lossie • George MacDonald
... there are some who thought him the more princely because he was so. And there are few who know that he did indeed try to end my life, for I would not spread abroad the full shame of a prince of our line. Men have thought that I would surely take him into favour again, but that was not possible. Only, I would that he had met a ...
— A Prince of Cornwall - A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex • Charles W. Whistler
... another (per aliud). Therefore the angelic essences are perfected of themselves unto conformity with God, and therefore not by means of habits. And this seems to have been the reasoning of Maximus, who in the same passage adds: "For if this were the case, surely their essence would not remain in itself, nor could it have been as far ...
— Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) - From the Complete American Edition • Saint Thomas Aquinas
... Palaye gives, have, of course, little application to Japanese conditions; but the larger and more general causes that helped to undermine Knighthood and Chivalry in and after the Middle Ages are as surely working for the decline ...
— Bushido, the Soul of Japan • Inazo Nitobe


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