pretendedly
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pretendedly (comparative more pretendedly, superlative most pretendedly)
- 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.