pretendedly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

pretended +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

pretendedly (comparative more pretendedly, superlative most pretendedly)

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