self-evidently

English

Etymology

From self-evident +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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

1. In a self-evident manner.
   • 2025 January 31, James Orr, “JD Vance States the Obvious About Ordo Amoris”, in First Things‎, archived from the original on 8 February 2025:

     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.