Is only professedly poor. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adverb : He is only professedly poor. ,She is professedly guilty of the crime. From Dictionary.com.
It was silent upon the subject for which the war had "professedly" been declared. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
They are formally and professedly His biographies. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
These armed cruisers were not professedly built for the. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901] Reference
Book iii. (six Elegies) is professedly the work of Lygdamus. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
Madame Denis, the King abandoned the toleration he had professedly extended. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of Modern Europe] Reference
Homer was, of course, professedly admired by all, but more admired than imitated. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
In fact, I shrunk from examining it; I think most people do who professedly accept it. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
But his work is not professedly, nor principally, directed to that subject of controversy. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
"It is well known that many of our early churches were erected on sites professedly pagan.". From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
In my time I have seen worldliness not only enthralling obviously and professedly worldly men. From Wordnik.com. [The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866] Reference
Some habits may be regarded with comparative indifference, although professedly held in condemnation. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
In a treatise professedly popular, one has a right to ask a few more facilities for the general reader. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866] Reference
Most of the older students, for instance, had professedly studied Latin, and either algebra or geometry, or both. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
While the Homer we know professedly commemorates the deeds of Achaean heroes, everything about them is non-Hellenic. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
It was professedly based on self-love, wherein the Stoics were at one with the other schools of thought in the ancient world. From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
Among our dinners, we visited two professedly vegetarian restaurants in Berlin: the Hans Wurst Vegan Cafe and Manna Restaurant. From Wordnik.com. [Rebecca Kosick: An American Vegetarian in Germany] Reference
I thought Miss Rayner was reading, and though I was professedly doing the same, my thoughts kept wandering off to Captain Gates. From Wordnik.com. [Dwell Deep or Hilda Thorn's Life Story] Reference
And the books which would be available to him would be chiefly the works of the Early Fathers, professedly books of moral instruction. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
Then there were the privateers who had a colour for their depredations; professedly volunteers on the side of recognised belligerents. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
If you professedly use a borrowed coin, you must adroitly change it for your own, tinder pretence of showing how to spin it, or the like. From Wordnik.com. [Healthful Sports for Boys] Reference
Let me say here, (this chapter being professedly episodical,) that the painter who can succeed in transferring to canvas that expression of. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
In the ordinary sciences the philosopher may and often does content himself with the well-rounded and professedly completed system of the day. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
Government, professedly actuated by a fear of war, asked for an appropriation, largely to increase the army annually for a term of seven years. From Wordnik.com. [In and Around Berlin] Reference
The name is from the Greek word theosophia -- divine wisdom -- and the object of theosophical study is professedly to understand the nature of divine things. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
And even in later times, Spinoza and to some extent Green, though they professedly treat of Ethics, hardly dissociate metaphysical from ethical considerations. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
It is emphatically, professedly, the philosophy of evolution, the rigid application of a purely scientific formula to everything capable of philosophical treatment. From Wordnik.com. [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference
The transition from the old to the new in this class of literature was through the Sunday-school and religious tract society books, professedly adapted to the young. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
You have accepted my invitation professedly as unselfish people, but your estimate of yourselves is the very reverse of that which is held by those who know you best. From Wordnik.com. [Working in the Shade Lowly Sowing brings Glorious Reaping] Reference
But the money was professedly devoted to the support of troops in Ulster, that is, each grantee was to be liable for the pay of thirty men, at 8d. a day for three years. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
For the translators of the new school, though professedly the foes of the word for word method, carried their hostility to existing theories of translation much farther. From Wordnik.com. [Early Theories of Translation] Reference
How can we wonder that the mass of monks were a very common kind of men, professedly very religious, of necessity formally so, but taking their duties as lightly as they could?. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
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