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  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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