professedly
Americanadverb
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allegedly; pretendedly.
He is only professedly poor.
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avowedly; by open declaration.
She is professedly guilty of the crime.
Etymology
Origin of professedly
Example Sentences
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One of the most famous took place in 353 A.D. when the artist-scholar Wang Xizhi threw a party for some 40 professedly loner friends at a retreat called the Orchid Pavilion.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2021
Before founding Circle of Hope in 2006, Boyd Householder worked at nearby Agapé Boarding School, another professedly Christian institution serving parents at wit’s end.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2021
The Beijing authorities are professedly seeking to change China’s economic growth model from one which depends on exports and capital investment to one more firmly based on domestic consumption.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 7, 2016
Psychic wounds? -- let's start with facts and numbers, the most immediate being that Woods went majorless in a 2013 season he entered professedly primed to be better than ever.
From Golf Digest ● Aug. 13, 2013
With the light that twenty-two years have shed upon the early history of Oregon, how shall we regard the policy and practice of the professedly kind and generous chief factors of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
From A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information by William Henry Gray
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