The Collaborative International Dictionary
Professedly \Pro*fess"ed*ly\, adv. By profession.
Wiktionary
adv. In a professed manner.
WordNet
adv. with pretense or intention to deceive; "is only professedly poor"
by open declaration; "their policy has been avowedly Marxist"; "Susan Smith was professedly guilty of the murders" [syn: avowedly]
Usage examples of "professedly".
In the preface to his first volume, he enumerates and weighs twenty Italian biographers, who have professedly treated of the same subject.
Lord North and Pitt, who took the lead in opposing the motion, argued, that the acts in question were meant to include both Papist and Protestant dissenters, and that the Corporation Act in particular was professedly made against dissenters, and not against Papists, though it eventually included both.
We have only a Scotch and Latin translation from the original, and a French translation, professedly done from the Latin.
The truth is, that medicine, professedly founded on observation, is as sensitive to outside influences, political, religious, philosophical, imaginative, as is the barometer to the changes of atmospheric density.
Indian fakirs, to which no professedly spiritistic explanation is attached.
Yet in the midst of a literature professedly false, and which paints in fascinating colors the various phases of unrepented vice and crime, without the redeeming shadows of honor and Christian morality, our little volume must fall a welcome sunbeam.
Vassar College, though professedly unsectarian, was mainly under Baptist control.
Mishinski was certainly a damyankee, professedly a Darwinist, and possibly a Bolshevik.
It was then that he composed the first two acts of Siegfried, and later on The Mastersingers, a professedly comedic work, and a quite Mozartian garden of melody, hardly credible as the work of the straining artifices of Tanehauser.
Before her evacuation, however, she effected an offensive and defensive alliance with the Sultan of Sulu, professedly to secure peace between the two signatories, and to insure the aid of each power to the other in case of foreign attack.
The favorable reception of the proposition to Great Britain was the less to be doubted, as her orders of council had not only been referred for their vindication to an acquiescence on the part of the United States no longer to be pretended, but as the arrangement proposed, while it resisted the illegal decrees of France, involved, moreover, substantially, the precise advantages professedly aimed at by the British orders.