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preˈtendedly, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a pretended manner; in or by a pretence; ostensibly, professedly: usually, and in mod. use always, implying feigning or deceit; hence, by false representation, feignedly, fictitiously, not really.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. ix. (1623) 638 Pretendedly founded vpon that Charter. 1627W. Sclater Exp. 2 Thess. (1629) 76 Yet liues his Heresie amongst men pretendedly most Orthodox. 1643Milton Divorce ii. iii. Wks. 1851 IV. 70 If any one be truly, and not pretendedly zealous for Gods honour. 1683Apol. Prot. France i. 7 Those of the said Religion pretendedly Reformed..may not hereafter be overcharged or oppressed with any Imposition..more than the Catholicks. 1716B. Church Hist. Philip's War (1865) I. 98 He and his English Men pretendedly fled, firing on their retreat towards the Indians that pursued them. 1788Burke Sp. agst. W. Hastings Wks. XIII. 223 Every kind of act done by Mr. Hastings—pretendedly for the Company, but really for himself. 1807Monthly Mag. XXIII. 362 Things are pretendedly explained and classed in unmeaning words. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. iii. ii. §22. 47 The pretendedly well-informed, but really ignorant, artist. |