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English
Etymology
From Middle English uncerteynliche, uncertanlye; equivalent to uncertain + -ly or un- + certainly.
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Adverb
uncertainly (comparative more uncertainly, superlative most uncertainly)
- In an uncertain manner.
1990, Grant Naylor, Better Than Life:"No — don't you get it?" said Rimmer.
"Get what?" said Kryten, uncertainly.
2007, Edward F. Mooney, On Søren Kierkegaard, page 195:I sketch the place of others, pinning them down with objective confidence within an institutional, urban, or rural landscape, yet only failingly, uncertainly, imagine where I really belong […]
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