professlyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

副詞

professly (comparative more professly, superlative most professly)

1. (rare, now chiefly US) Professedly (in a professed manner).
   • 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:

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

   • 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:

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

   • 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:

     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.

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