professly

adverb

1. Professedly (in a professed manner).

   rare

   But Padre Fulgentio profeſsly aſcribes the invention to that prodigy of Wiſdom, Learning, and Virtue, Padre Paolo the Venetian: […]

Where it comes from

Apparently shortened from professedly. Compare Middle English profes (“professed”). Apparently unattested between the 17th and 20th centuries, hence a repeated coinage.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry professly (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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