professedly

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Professedly they are works of psychological observation; but the tendency and suasion in them seems to run to disintegrating the idea of truth, recommending belief without reason, and encouraging superstition.

From Character and Opinion in the United States by Santayana, George

Professedly despising pleasure and fortune, but secretly laboring to acquire their possession, they manufactured with more facility diabolical apparitions, than those which spontaneously sprang from the overwrought brain of the sincere.

From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by Alberger, John

Professedly not History, it performs all its wonders in the guise of History and adds a light and a human interest to chronicle that gives increased value.

From On the Vice of Novel Reading. Being a brief in appeal, pointing out errors of the lower tribunal. by Allison, Young Ewing

Professedly all armament has been designed to keep the peace; so much of a shadow of the peaceable bias there still stands over.

From An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation by Veblen, Thorstein

Professedly indeed, they are aiming at the Greek and Roman classics, but their criticisms have quite as great force against all literature as against any.

From The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by Newman, John Henry