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单词 seemingly
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seeminglyadv.

/ˈsiːmɪŋli/
Forms: Also Middle English semeinly, 1500s semyngly.
Etymology: < seeming adj. + -ly suffix2.
1. Fittingly, becomingly. Now somewhat rare.
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society > morality > dueness or propriety > [adverb]
rightlyeOE
arightc970
rightOE
properly?c1225
goodc1275
rightfully1340
truly1340
tallya1375
featlya1400
rekenlyc1400
communablya1425
fitc1440
accordantlyc1443
accordinglyc1443
justilyc1450
seemingly1483
fitlyc1550
conveniently1569
arightly1588
legitimately1593
fittinglya1643
legitimously1657
honest-like1807
1483 Cath. Angl. 329/1 Semeinly, decenter, conuenienter, eleganter, & cetera.
a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §112 117 The tenant..is to come seemingly apparelled.
1702 London Gaz. No. 3804/2 The Temporal Lords, did their Homage, and seemingly kissed Her Majesty's Left Cheek.
1883 Harper's Mag. Dec. 93/1 Try and bear yourselves more seemingly.
2.
a. To external appearance, apparently. (Distinguished from but not necessarily opposed to really.)
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [adverb] > seemingly or apparently
in semblant?a1366
quasi1485
cloakedlya1500
appearingly1554
in show1556
apparentlya1572
pearinglya1578
with show1614
seeminglya1616
seemingly1715
seemly1821
in semblance1864
semblably1889
mbu2002
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iv. vi. 32 To this her Mothers plot She seemingly obedient..likewise hath Made promise to the Doctor. View more context for this quotation
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 196 One of these seemingly deuout Abdals.
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables xi. 10 Now the City-Dame was so well bred, as seemingly to take All in Good Part.
1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. vii. 123 Things seemingly the most insignificant imaginable.
1801 M. Edgeworth Angelina ii, in Moral Tales II. 41 A young lady, seemingly not more than sixteen years of age.
1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh I. vii. 109 A combination of circumstances seemingly more favourable to the enterprise..could scarcely be looked for.
1893 Law Times 95 28/1 The Director..managed to get the better of the Lord Chief Justice..and is seemingly desirous that the facts of the victory should be fully known.
b. ? nonce-use. ? So as to seem real. Obsolete.
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1602 Kyd's Spanish Trag. (new ed.) iii. sig. H4 Canst paint a dolefull crie? Paint. Seemingly, sir.
3.
a. So far as it appears from the evidence; so far as one can judge by circumstances.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [adverb] > seemingly or apparently
in semblant?a1366
quasi1485
cloakedlya1500
appearingly1554
in show1556
apparentlya1572
pearinglya1578
with show1614
seeminglya1616
seemingly1715
seemly1821
in semblance1864
semblably1889
mbu2002
1715 D. Defoe Family Instructor I. i. i. 73 It must be done! however difficult, however seemingly fruitless, and to no purpose.
1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man ii. iii. §6. 293 Where they are opposite, or seemingly so, we may suppose them to..restrain one another.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. ix. 307 Through French influence the rupture with Scotland had been seemingly healed.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 434 The seemingly true belief that God is our guardian.
1892 Speaker 3 Sept. 279/1 The prisoners..were cheered on leaving, but seemingly only by their own claque.
b. In combinations (usually hyphenated) with adjectives in the sense of ‘apparently ——’.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [adjective] > seeming or apparent
huedc1000
showing?c1400
seemlya1450
apparissaunt1485
superficial1616
specious1617
semblable1627
apparent1645
representative1646
skin-deep1653
appearing1656
seemingly1725
semblative1814
semblant1840
1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. v. Observ. 49 This seemingly-trifling circumstance is an instance.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison III. xviii. 158 What excellence shines out in full lustre, on this unaffected and seemingly little occasion.
1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia I. viii. 174 More than once some..question of his had..opened up ugly depths of doubt, even on the most seemingly-palpable certainties.
c. parenthetically. As it seems.
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1702 S. Parker tr. Cicero Five Bks. De Finibus v. 285 Not that there is any Thing Material wherein they vary or disagree, tho' seemingly they may teach us inconsistent Lessons.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 289 The contending parties, seemingly, were partizans of Douglas, known by the cognizance of the Bloody Heart, and citizens of the town of Perth.
1863 A. D. T. Whitney Faith Gartney's Girlhood xxix Some women..have done this, and, seemingly, done well.
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