professed

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PROFESS'ED PROFESS'EDLY, adverb By profession; by open declaration or avowal. I could not grant too much to men--professedly my subjects. England I traveled over, professedly searching all places as I passed along.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI

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