pretensively

adv

adv

Etymology From pretensive + -ly.

In a pretensive manner.

Let us not be too much taken, my friends, by the typology in which our gospel is here and there so feebly and pretensively dressed — the low perceptions, and the short culture, always putting their cheap honors and ornaments upon it.1876, Horace Bushnell, Sermons on Christ and His Salvation, page 263:

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