pretendedly
Adverb

pretendedly

  1. In a way that is pretended; under false pretence.
    • 1712, Roger Laurence, Lay-Baptism Invalid
      This Author mightily triumphs in Bishops confirming Children, pretendedly Baptized by Dissenting Teachers, as if they therefore acknowledg'd those Baptisms to be Valid.



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