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Use "professedly" in a sentence
"The Greek genealogies render us so familiar with heroes eponymi -- imaginary personages, who owe their origin to the mere fact of the existence of certain tribe or race names, to account for which they were invented -- that whenever, even in the history of other nations, we happen upon a name professedly personal, which stands evidently in close connection with a tribal designation, we are apt at once to suspect it of being fictitious."
"It was silent upon the subject for which the war had "professedly" been declared."
"Away then with the widespread but most mischievous error of those who give it as their opinion that the reception of the Eucharist is in a manner reserved for those narrow-minded persons (as they are deemed) who rid themselves of the cares of the world in order to find rest in some kind of professedly religious life."