professedly
[pruh-fes-id-lee]
- allegedly; pretendedly: He is only professedly poor.
- avowedly; by open declaration: She is professedly guilty of the crime.
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Origin of professedly
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Historical Examples
Before he was professedly a Roman Catholic, but really an infidel.
Journal of a Residence at BagdadAnthony Groves
They have been professedly undertaken as a matter of authorship.
The memorial was signed by 1,036 persons, professedly free miners.
The Forest of DeanH. G. Nicholls
The poem by Lutwyche is professedly "slow, involved, and mystical."
Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert BrowningRobert Browning
Have we any pedigree worthy to be compared with that of professedly old families?
A LaodiceanThomas Hardy