English Explanatory Dictionary

professly

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adv
  1. Professedly (in a professed manner).

Word forms

professly more professly most professly profesly

Etymology

Apparently shortened from professedly. Compare Middle English profes (“professed”). Apparently unattested between the 17th and 20th centuries, hence a repeated coinage.

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