unmistakingly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From unmistaking + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]unmistakingly (comparative more unmistakingly, superlative most unmistakingly)
- Without any mistake or misunderstanding; unmistakably.
- 1912, The Painter and Decorator, volume 26, page 79:
- The writing was unmistakingly that of Liza Mary—the sentiment as unmistakingly that of Violet Rose. For a moment Miss Car'line twisted the note between fingers which no longer trembled.
- 1981, Kenelm Foster, Patrick Boyde, Cambridge Readings in Dante's Comedy, page 52:
- And in the canto this mind will be characterised very thoroughly: a sense of ambiguity and duality will run throughout it, unobtrusively but unmistakingly underlining the essence of Dante's poetic vision of Guido.