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adv
surely, certainly; indeed, assuredly
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, not-comparable, poetic
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From an incorrect assumption made by editors where i-wiss, iwis (“certainly, for sure”) was hypercorrected to I wiss, as if wiss were a verb and I were the pronoun I. See also wiss, wis, iwis.
