professedly

[pruh-fes-id-lee]

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adverb

allegedly; pretendedly: He is only professedly poor.
avowedly; by open declaration: She is professedly guilty of the crime.

Origin of professedly

First recorded in 1560–70; professed + -ly

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018

Related Words for professedly

supposedly, officially, evidently, seemingly, superficially, purportedly, doubtless, plainly, ostensibly, obviously, undoubtedly, manifestly, probably, allegedly, possibly, externally, patently, outwardly, professedly, sensibly

Examples from the Web for professedly

Historical Examples of professedly

Before he was professedly a Roman Catholic, but really an infidel.
Journal of a Residence at Bagdad
Anthony Groves
They have been professedly undertaken as a matter of authorship.
Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846
Various
The memorial was signed by 1,036 persons, professedly free miners.
The Forest of Dean
H. G. Nicholls
The poem by Lutwyche is professedly "slow, involved, and mystical."
Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning
Robert Browning
Have we any pedigree worthy to be compared with that of professedly old families?
A Laodicean
Thomas Hardy