professedly

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One of the most famous took place in 353 A.D. when the artist-scholar Wang Xizhi threw a party for some 40 professedly loner friends at a retreat called the Orchid Pavilion.

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2021

Before founding Circle of Hope in 2006, Boyd Householder worked at nearby Agapé Boarding School, another professedly Christian institution serving parents at wit’s end.

From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2021

The Beijing authorities are professedly seeking to change China’s economic growth model from one which depends on exports and capital investment to one more firmly based on domestic consumption.

From The Guardian • Jan. 7, 2016

Psychic wounds? -- let's start with facts and numbers, the most immediate being that Woods went majorless in a 2013 season he entered professedly primed to be better than ever.

From Golf Digest • Aug. 13, 2013

They met professedly for card-playing; but the members were distinguished by such a fearless excess of profligacy as to obtain for it the name of "The Hell Club."

From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various