feignedlyadv.
/ˈfeɪnᵻdli/, U.S. /ˈfeɪnᵻdli/ In a feigned manner.
1. Pretendedly, not really; deceitfully.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [adverb]
faintlyc1330
feigninglya1387
supposingly?a1450
feignedly1535
counterfeitly1548
dissimulately1556
pretencedly1567
simulately1592
pretensively1607
pretendedly1611
ironically1612
supposedly1618
feigning1620
pretendingly1645
fictitiously1646
fictly1677
simulatively1816
bogusly1862
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Dan. xi. E Many shal cleue vnto them faynedly.
1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) x. lxi. 268 Yeat better plainly to reproue, than fainedly to kisse.
1700 J. Tyrrell Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 723 Others, tho' feignedly, adher'd to him.
1884 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. III. 1938 The conversion was not with the whole heart, but feignedly.
2. Law. By a fiction; fictitiously.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > jurisprudence > [adverb] > by legal fiction
feignedly1592
1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. §11 C Consent is sometimes used in deede and sometimes fainedly as in law.
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