self-evidently

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English self-evident Middle English -ly English -ly English self-evidently From self-evident + -ly.

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 through choice or circumstance—and entirely consistent with the moral grammar of the scriptural witness.”