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seemingly, adv.|ˈsiːmɪŋlɪ|
Also 5 semeinly, 6 semyngly.
[f. seeming ppl. a. + -ly2.]
1. Fittingly, becomingly. Now somewhat rare.
1483Cath. Angl. 329/1 Semeinly, decenter, conuenienter, eleganter, & cetera. c1630Risdon Surv. Devon §112 (1810) 117 The tenant..is to come seemingly apparelled. 1702Lond. Gaz. No. 3804/2 The Temporal Lords, did their Homage, and seemingly kissed Her Majesty's Left Cheek. 1883Harper's Mag. Dec. 93/1 Try and bear yourselves more seemingly.
2. To external appearance, apparently. (Distinguished from but not necessarily opposed to really.)
1598Shakes. Merry W. iv. vi. 33 To this her Mothers plot She seemingly obedient likewise hath Made promise to the Doctor. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 196 One of these seemingly deuout Abdals. 1692R. L'Estrange Fables xi. 10 Now the City-Dame was so well bred, as seemingly to take All in Good Part. 1736Butler Anal. i. vii. Wks. 1874 I. 132 Things seemingly the most insignificant imaginable. 1802M. Edgeworth Moral T., Angelina ii, A young lady seemingly not more than sixteen years of age. 1868E. Edwards Ralegh I. vii. 109 A combination of circumstances seemingly more favourable to the enterprise..could scarcely be looked for. 1893Law Times XCV. 28/1 The Director..managed to get the better of the Lord Chief Justice..and is seemingly desirous that the facts of the victory should be fully known.
†b. ? nonce-use. ? So as to seem real. Obs.
1602Kyd's Sp. Trag. iii. xii. A. 123 Canst paint a dolefull crie? Paint. Seemingly, sir.
3. So far as it appears from the evidence; so far as one can judge by circumstances.
1715De Foe Fam. Instruct. (1841) I. 62 Well, it must be done, however difficult, however seemingly fruitless, and to no purpose. 1748Hartley Observ. Man ii. iii. §6. 293 Where they are opposite, or seemingly so, we may suppose them to..restrain one another. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. ix. 307 Through French influence the rupture with Scotland had been seemingly healed. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 434 The seemingly true belief that God is our guardian. 1892Speaker 3 Sept. 279/1 The prisoners..were cheered on leaving, but seemingly only by their own claque.
b. In combinations (usually hyphened) with adjectives in the sense of ‘apparently ―’.
1725Pope's Odyss. v. Notes II. 49 This seemingly-trifling circumstance is an instance. 1753Richardson Grandison (1754) III. xviii. 158 What excellence shines out in full lustre, on this unaffected and seemingly little occasion. 1853Kingsley Hypatia viii, More than once some..question of his had..opened up ugly depths of doubt, even on the most seemingly-palpable certainties.
c. parenthetically. As it seems.
1702S. Parker tr. Cicero's De Finibus v. 285 Not that there is any Thing Material wherein they vary or disagree, tho' seemingly they may teach us inconsistent Lessons. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xi, The contending parties, seemingly, were partizans of Douglas, known by the cognizance of the Bloody Heart, and citizens of the town of Perth. 1863Mrs. Whitney Faith Gartney's Girlh. xxix, Some women..have done this, and, seemingly, done well. |