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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

pretendedly en · ADV

Etymology

From pretended + -ly.

Meanings

  1. In a way that is pretended; under false pretence.
    • This Author mightily triumphs in Bishops confirming Children, pretendedly Baptized by Dissenting Teachers, as if they therefore acknowledg'd those Baptisms to be Valid. 1712, Roger Laurence, Lay-Baptism Invalid:

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more pretendedly Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most pretendedly Degree=Sup lexicographic