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definitely

/ˈdɛf.ɪ.nɪt.li/ adverb B1
  1. Without question and beyond doubt. · Joe definitely doesn't know how to drive a tractor.· She said she wasn't coming, definitely.
  2. In a definite manner; decisively.
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An old sly Fox, seeing this, said, “May I never make myself so ridiculous as you do in your pride and self-conceit; for even though you have the size of a lion among wolves, in a herd of lions you are definitely a wolf.”
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 64 · B2
McFarlane’s guilt definitely established.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 55 · C1
This, of course, if we could definitely prove it, would turn Lestrade’s argument against himself, for who would steal a thing if he knew that he would shortly inherit it?
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 52 · C1
“You think then, definitely, that Barker and Mrs.
The Valley of Fear, p. 69 · C1

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