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Supposedly. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1919, rev. 2024. Supposedly adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.]

1   1.  In the way of supposition; by supposition; as is (or was) supposed.

2 1611.  W. Sclater, Key (1629), 293. I … would not easily bee brought to diuulge my conceits supposedly true.

3 1629.  Bp. Hall, Reconciler, 33. Little doe these men see the toyles, and anxieties that attend this supposedly pleasing eminence.

4 1651.  Baxter, Inf. Bapt., Apol. 5. So that the Rebaptized husband would not pray with his (supposedly) unbaptized wife.

5 1717.  Berkeley, Tour Italy, Wks. 1871, IV. 538. Beneventum … Cathedral … built supposedly on the foundation of an old temple.

6 1805.  W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., III. 544. This supposedly exemplary mother too was the educatress of Caligula.

7 1865.  J. Grote, Moral Ideals (1876), 202. ‘Love your enemies’ (it being supposedly your friends that you do love).

8 1881.  Br. Nicholson, in Athenæum, 25 June, 848/3. Nor is the supposedly parallel passage at all to the purpose.

9 1916.  Times, 5 June, 8/3. Our three battle-cruisers had been blown up, supposedly as the result of gun-fire.

10   † 2.  Feignedly, pretendedly. Obs.

11 1618.  T. Gainsford, 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.

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