† pretencedlyadv.
Obsolete.
With or in pretence; pretendedly, feignedly, allegedly. rare in later use.
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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
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [adverb] > in appearance
colourably1433
in show1556
for show1563
affectedly1637
speciously1647
ostensibly1762
ostensively1763
lamb-fashion1810
pretencedly1885
1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Eviijv In case thou walke pretensedly, And thereby hope to gaine.
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis 139 Onely of his crime no woord hee spake, But of his flyght another cause pretensedly did make.
1607 L. Andrewes Serm. (1843) V. 191 Let the world be preached..be it sincerely, or be it pretensedly.
1885 R. W. Dixon Hist. Church Eng. (1893) III. xv. 40 The Parliament saw..their own statute of repeal traversed by these royal, or pretensedly royal edicts.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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