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professedly, adv.|prəʊˈfɛsɪdlɪ|
Also 7 profestly.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
1. By or according to profession or declaration; avowedly.
1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 831/2 He whiche wrote professedly against the superstitions of the people. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. Pref., Wks. 1851 III. 97 The reasons thereof are not formally and profestly set downe. 1647Ward Simp. Cobler (1842) 17, I should..suspect..that faith that can professedly live with two or three sordid sins. 1667Pepys Diary 9 Jan., The Commons do it professedly to prevent the King's dispensing with it. 1693Dryden Juvenal (1697) p. xiii, Only Virgil, whom he profestly imitated, has surpass'd him, among the Romans; and only Mr Waller among the English. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 175 ⁋13 Many there are, who openly and almost professedly regulate all their conduct by their love of money. 1884Law Times LXXVII. 382/2 Professedly written,..not for the lawyer, but for the commercial world.
2. Ostensibly, under mere profession or pretence: opposed, implicitly or explicitly, to ‘actually’ or ‘really’.
1831Mackintosh Hist. Eng. II. ii. 51 Buckingham..hastened with a body of adherents, professedly to join the king. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. I. ii. 181 Her portraits, though all professedly by Holbein,..are singularly unlike each other. 1892Law Times XCIII. 551/1 The process of the court had been used by the solicitor professedly for one purpose, to levy a debt, but really for another purpose. |