Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




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."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar




"Surely" Quotes from Famous Books



... a rare wooer, surely," said she one day, as the Lord of Ware bore the Countess off to his barge for a row on the Thames. "You had your chance at Pontefract and . . . yonder she goes! One would never fancy you were ...
— Beatrix of Clare • John Reed Scott
... winter songs, Ralph," said the curate's wife. "This is surely stormy enough for one of your Scotch winters that ...
— Adela Cathcart - Volume II • George MacDonald
... through it and the following day. I trust that no one who may chance to read these pages will ever be placed in a similar position; but should it so happen, I hope that the remembrance of my adventure will occur to them; for surely it teaches, as plainly as anything can, that even in the most adverse circumstances no one need ever despair; and shows how an individual of no unusual physical powers may, by God's help, resist the overwhelming temptation to sleep which is usually ...
— A Night in the Snow - or, A Struggle for Life • Rev. E. Donald Carr
... all that could be desired, and everything was carefully worked out to the minutest detail: not a stone was left unturned to render the operations a complete success. The labour and expense was well rewarded too, for surely no battle ever ran so smoothly from first to last, and it will always be looked back upon by the British soldier as a model of triumphant organisation. The battle only lasted a single day, but in that time the formidable network of trenches was neatly and clearly shorn off, and the enemy, ...
— Three years in France with the Guns: - Being Episodes in the life of a Field Battery • C. A. Rose
... requisitional letters to be circulated among the colonies by the Secretary of State, it is highly probable that he would have obtained more money from the colonies by their voluntary grants than he himself expected from the stamps. Such at any rate is the claim of Franklin, who was surely in a position to feel the pulse of the colonies better than any other one man. "But he (Grenville) chose compulsion rather than persuasion, and would not receive from their good-will what he thought he could obtain without it. Thus the golden bridge which the Americans were ...
— James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist • John Clark Ridpath


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Dictionary One.com