supposedlyadv.

1597 St. Peters Ten Teares (title page) Ten teares of S. Peters, supposedly written upon his weeping sorrowes for denying his Maister Christ.

1611 W. Sclater Key (1629) 293 I..would not easily bee brought to diuulge my conceits supposedly true.

1629 Bp. J. Hall Reconciler 33 Little doe these men see the toyles, and anxieties that attend this supposedly-pleasing eminence.

1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism Apol. 5 So that the Rebaptized husband would not pray with his (supposedly) unbaptized wife.

1717 G. Berkeley Jrnls. Trav. Italy 17 May in Wks. (1955) VII. 270 Cathedral clean & in good repair..built supposedly on the foundation of an old temple.

1779 W. Alexander Hist. Women II. xxii. 178 Many ladies renouncing their finery, appeared in all the simplicity which this supposedly inspired monk dictated to them.

1805 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 3 544 This supposedly exemplary mother too was the educatress of Caligula.

1865 J. Grote Treat. Moral Ideals (1876) 202 ‘Love your enemies’ (it being supposedly your friends that you do love).

1881 Athenæum 25 June 848/3 Nor is the supposedly parallel passage at all to the purpose.

1916 Times 5 June 8/3 Our three battle cruisers had been blown up, supposedly as the result of gun-fire.

1960 R. E. Nunley Distribution Population in Costa Rica iv. 44 The mapping of population in the isolated settlements south of Lake Nicaragua was mostly guesswork based on conflicting stories of several people who supposedly knew the area well.

2006 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 21 Sept. 36/3 Such moments of defamiliarizing can turn the supposedly familiar into something never before heard.

1618 T. Gainsford True Hist. P. Warbeck 33 By that time..she verily belieued he was the same she had supposedly contriued: & he quite forgot, that euer his first originall came out of the Dunghill.