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ostensibly |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ostensibly \Os*ten"si*bly\, adv In an ostensible manner; avowedly; professedly; apparently. --Walsh. Ostensibly, we were intended to prevent filibustering into Texas, but really as a menace to Mexico. --U. S. Grant. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: ostensibly adv : from appearances alone; "irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparently desert land"; "the child is seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned"; "had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it"-Thomas Hardy; "on the face of it the problem seems minor" [syn: {apparently}, {seemingly}, {on the face of it}]
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