profesly

comparative more profesly · superlative most profesly

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of professly.

   But why in an Apoplexy, the Pulſe is hard and great, we muſt ſearch it from the nature of a diſeaſe, which I will at ſometime profeſly touch at in a Book, and that of the diſeaſe of the Stone.

   1662, John Baptista Van Helmont, translated by John Chandler, “The Blas of Man”, in Oriatrike or, Physick Refined. The Common Errors Therein Refuted, and the Whole Art Reformed & Rectified: […], London: […] Lodowick Loyd, […], →OCLC, page 186

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   Imputation argueth that I have and doe nothing, but another hath, and another doth for mee, and imputes it to mee: the Church of Rome profeſly holds the contrary, and punctually point blanke in the force of contradiction: they are the very words of the Councell, the alone formall cauſe, and that which gives life and being to the juſtification of a ſinner; it is the change and frame of holineſſe wrought in him, not imputed to him, this is profeſly contrary.

   1638, T[homas] H[ooker], “1 Cor. 1. 30. Who of God Is Made unto Vs Wisedome, and Righteousnesse, and Sanctification, and Redemption.”, in The Soules Exaltation. […], London: […] Iohn Haviland, for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC, page 122

   Whether the Artiſts themſelves are ſo unread, as not to obſerve, that any curſory Reader might (with no great buſineſs) make a voluminous collection of teſtimonies and authorities, profeſly againſt their Arts?

   1652, John Gaule, “From the Testimony of Authority”, in Πῦς-μαντία: The Mag-astro-mancer, or The Magicall-Astrologicall-Diviner Posed, and Puzzled, London: […] Joshua Kirton […], →OCLC, page 56