professly

comparative more professly · superlative most professly · alternative obsolete profesly

1. USrareProfessedly (in a professed manner).

   But religious people are, even in spite of what they professly believe, optimists as a rule.

   1978, Mahinda Palihawadana, “A Buddhist Response: Religion Beyond Ideology and Power”, in Donald G. Dawe, John B[raisted] Carman, editors, Christian Faith in a Religiously Plural World, Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, →ISBN, part 1 (The Dialogue with Other Religions), page 43

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   But Padre Fulgentio profeſsly aſcribes the invention to that prodigy of Wiſdom, Learning, and Virtue, Padre Paolo the Venetian: […]

   1683 March 29 (Gregorian calendar), Walter Charleton, “Prælectio I. Of the Circular Motion of the Bloud, and the Admirable Effects Thereof.”, in Three Anatomic Lectures, […], London: […] Walter Kettilby, […], published 7 April 1683 (Gregorian calendar), →OCLC, page 19

   He had to professly sanction everything that we did from birth to death and from morning to night to strengthen this link between him and us.

   2013 July 12, Danny Guy Lurie, “Moses—My Life as I Remember It”, in A Collection of Short Stories, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 156