单词 | pretendedly |
释义 | pretendedlyadv. In a pretended manner; by a pretence; ostensibly; allegedly, supposedly; falsely. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [adverb] faintlyc1330 feigninglya1387 supposingly?a1450 feignedly1535 counterfeitly1548 dissimulately1556 pretencedly1567 simulately1592 pretensively1607 pretendedly1611 ironically1612 supposedly1618 feigning1620 pretendingly1645 fictitiously1646 fictly1677 simulatively1816 bogusly1862 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. ix. 537/1 Pretendedly founded vpon that Charter. 1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. 76 Yet liues his Heresie amongst men pretendedly most Orthodox. 1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 40 If any one be truly, and not pretendedly zealous for Gods honour. 1683 Apol. Protestants France i. 7 Those of the said Religion pretendedly Reformed..may not hereafter be overcharged or oppressed with any Imposition..more than the Catholicks. 1716 B. Church Entertaining Passages Philip's War i. 29 He and his English Men pretendedly fled, firing on their retreat towards the Indians that pursued them. 1788 E. Burke Speech against W. Hastings in Wks. (1822) XIII. 223 Every kind of act done by Mr. Hastings—pretendedly for the Company, but really for himself. 1807 Monthly Mag. 23 362 Things are pretendedly explained and classed in unmeaning words. 1853 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice III. ii. 47 The pretendedly well-informed, but really ignorant, artist. 1893 H. James Let. 29 Dec. (1981) III. 451 This he did..by reading and pretendedly rehearsing the play in secret once or twice. 1917 C. R. Payne tr. O. Pfister Psychoanalytic Method i. xi. 292 I have also found the serpent atypically as allusion to the pretendedly poisonous tongue of the wife. 1948 F. Thompson Still glides Stream v. 100 Any questions were met by a pretendedly jocular ‘Wait & see!’ 1984 Listener 26 Apr. 28/3 The question matters for me, since it is the pretendedly ‘light’ Stevens that I find great. 2003 Canberra Times (Austral.) (Nexis) 25 Oct. b11 Pretendedly bipartisan occasions such as the presidential address to Parliament. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1611 |
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