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BEYOND A DOUBT
Dictionary entry overview: What does beyond a doubt mean?
• BEYOND A DOUBT (adverb)
The adverb BEYOND A DOUBT has 1 sense:
1. in a manner or to a degree that could not be doubted
Familiarity information: BEYOND A DOUBT used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a manner or to a degree that could not be doubted
Synonyms:
beyond a doubt; beyond a shadow of a doubt; beyond doubt; indubitably
Context example:
his guilt was established beyond a shadow of a doubt
Context examples
That was a fact beyond a doubt, and without an alloy.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Mrs. Thorpe is too indulgent beyond a doubt; but, however, you had better not interfere.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Bessie supplied the hiatus by a homily of an hour's length, in which she proved beyond a doubt that I was the most wicked and abandoned child ever reared under a roof.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Beyond a doubt it was the Macedonia.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Beyond a doubt, they do wish him to choose Miss Darcy, replied Jane; but this may be from better feelings than you are supposing.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
This set the matter beyond a doubt.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The apples themselves are the very finest sort for baking, beyond a doubt; all from Donwell—some of Mr. Knightley's most liberal supply.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The offence which had been given her father, many years back, she knew; Elizabeth's particular share in it she suspected; and that Mr Elliot's idea always produced irritation in both was beyond a doubt.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
A happy party it appeared to her, all interested in one object: cheerful beyond a doubt, for the sound of merriment ascended even to her.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I do not know what I told her, he replied, impatiently; less than was due to the past, beyond a doubt, and in all likelihood much more than was justified by the future.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
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