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manifestly

adverb

  1. evidently/openly/unmistakably
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Pronunciation: /ˈmæn.ɪ.fɛst.li/

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English manifest Middle English -ly English -ly English manifestly From manifest + -ly.

  1. In a manifest manner; obviously.

    Folk lore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal.

    He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.