单词 | professly |
释义 | professlyadv. rare. Now chiefly U.S. Avowedly, expressly; = professedly adv. 1.Apparently unattested between the 17th and 20th centuries. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > acknowledgement, avowal, or confession > [adverb] expressly1393 professedly1569 grantedlya1638 confessedly1640 declaredly1645 professly1652 avowedly1656 confessinglya1658 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 56 [To] make a voluminous collection of testimonies and authorities, profesly against their Arts. 1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 185 A disease, which I will at sometime profesly touch at in a Book. 1683 W. Charleton Three Anat. Lect. 19 Padre Fulgentio professly ascribes the invention to that prodigy of Wisdom, Learning, and Virtue, Padre Paolo the Venetian. 1979 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 8 Sept. 8 She set out professly to defend the Government against the verbal hostility and socalled ‘ingratitude’ of the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church. 1997 Christian Pagans, Again in alt.pagan (Usenet newsgroup) 24 Feb. Even though they [sc. Voudoun practitioners] professly believe in the Roman Catholic Church, and..the Pope is their spiritual leader. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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