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professedly

/pruh-fes-id-lee/US // prəˈfɛs ɪd li //

宣称的,宣称,自称是,宣称是

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : allegedly; pretendedly: He is only professedly poor.
    • : avowedly; by open declaration: She is professedly guilty of the crime.

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Examples

  • Then he went abroad, but though professedly hunting health he visited and inspected half the principal prisons in Europe.

  • Pouncy published some etchings which, although not professedly views of Lambeth, were in reality studies in that locality.

  • It kept rigidly and sternly aloof from all connection with professedly political parties.

  • This enquiry respecting Ens is left by Plato professedly unsettled; according to his very frequent practice.

  • This supposition is what most Platonic critics have in their minds, even when professedly modifying it.