profeslyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

副詞

profesly (comparative more profesly, superlative most profesly)

1. Obsolete spelling of professly.
   • 1638, T[homas] H[ooker], “1 Cor. 1. 30. Who of God Is Made unto Vs Wisedome, and Righteousnesse, and Sanctification, and Redemption.”, in The Soules Exaltation. […], London: […] Iohn Haviland, for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC, page 122:

     Imputation argueth that I have and doe nothing, but another hath, and another doth for mee, and imputes it to mee: the Church of Rome profeſly holds the contrary, and punctually point blanke in the force of contradiction: they are the very words of the Councell, the alone formall cauſe, and that which gives life and being to the juſtification of a ſinner; it is the change and frame of holineſſe wrought in him, not imputed to him, this is profeſly contrary.

   • 1652, John Gaule, “From the Testimony of Authority”, in Πῦς-μαντία: The Mag-astro-mancer, or The Magicall-Astrologicall-Diviner Posed, and Puzzled, London: […] Joshua Kirton […], →OCLC, page 56:

     Whether the Artiſts themſelves are ſo unread, as not to obſerve, that any curſory Reader might (with no great buſineſs) make a voluminous collection of teſtimonies and authorities, profeſly againſt their Arts?

   • 1662, John Baptista Van Helmont, translated by John Chandler, “The Blas of Man”, in Oriatrike or, Physick Refined. The Common Errors Therein Refuted, and the Whole Art Reformed & Rectified: […], London: […] Lodowick Loyd, […], →OCLC, page 186:

     But why in an Apoplexy, the Pulſe is hard and great, we muſt ſearch it from the nature of a diſeaſe, which I will at ſometime profeſly touch at in a Book, and that of the diſeaſe of the Stone.