Definition of "professedly" [pro•fess•ed•ly]

• In a professed manner. (adverb)

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• "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."