in all probability

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prob·a·bil·i·ty (pr

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n. pl. prob·a·bil·i·ties

1. The quality or condition of being probable; likelihood.

2. A probable situation, condition, or event: Her election is a clear probability.

a. The likelihood that a given event will occur: little probability of rain tonight.

b. Statistics A number expressing the likelihood that a specific event will occur, expressed as the ratio of the number of actual occurrences to the number of possible occurrences.

Idiom:

in all probability

Most probably; very likely.

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Adv.

in all probability - with considerable certainty; without much doubt; "He is probably out of the country"; "in all likelihood we are headed for war"

belike, in all likelihood, likely, probably

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There is something ostensible in each of them, and in all probability something unseen and unproved, but to be imagined, also.

The Lair of the White Worm by Stoker, Bram View in context

The words are expressly intended to mislead some person -- yourself in all probability -- and the cunning which has put them to that use is a cunning which (as constantly happens when uninstructed persons meddle with law) has overreached itself.

No Name by Collins, Wilkie View in context

Lady Susan, in a letter to her brother-in-law, has declared her intention of visiting us almost immediately; and as such a visit is in all probability merely an affair of convenience, it is impossible to conjecture its length.

Lady Susan by Austen, Jane View in context

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