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self-evidently

self-evidently adverb: in a self-evident manner.

Adverb

self-evidently (comparative more self-evidently, superlative most self-evidently)

  1. In a self-evident manner.
    • When explicated in Augustine’s On Christian Teaching or in Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae, the ordo amoris emerges as a concept that is both cogent on its own terms—reciprocal obligations incurred through birth and upbringing are, after all, self-evidently stronger than those we freely undertake...2025 January 31, James Orr, “JD Vance States the Obvious About Ordo Amoris”, in First Things, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2025

Forms of self-evidently

comparativemore self-evidently
superlativemost self-evidently

Origin of self-evidently

From self-evident + -ly.

Questions about self-evidently

What does self-evidently mean?
Self-evidently means in a self-evident manner.
What part of speech is self-evidently?
Self-evidently is an adverb.

Words near self-evidently in the dictionary

  1. self-evaluation
  2. self-evaluations
  3. self-evidence
  4. self-evidency
  5. self-evident
  6. self-evidently
  7. self-evolution
  8. self-exaltation
  9. self-exalting
  10. self-exaltings
  11. self-exam

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