pretendedly

adv

pretendedly

adv

Etymology From pretended + -ly.

1

In a way that is pretended; under false pretence.

This Author mightily triumphs in Bishops confirming Children, pretendedly Baptized by Dissenting Teachers, as if they therefore acknowledg'd those Baptisms to be Valid.1712, Roger Laurence, Lay-Baptism Invalid:

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