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profesly

profesly is the obsolete spelling of professly.

Meaning of professly

Adverb

professly (comparative more professly, superlative most professly)

  1. (US, rare) Professedly (in a professed manner).
    • But Padre Fulgentio profeſsly aſcribes the invention to that prodigy of Wiſdom, Learning, and Virtue, Padre Paolo the Venetian: […]1683 March 29 (Gregorian calendar), Walter Charleton, “Prælectio I. Of the Circular Motion of the Bloud, and the Admirable Effects Thereof.”, in Three Anatomic Lectures, […], London: […] Walter...

Forms of profesly

comparativemore profesly
superlativemost profesly

Questions about profesly

What is profesly the obsolete spelling of?
Profesly is the obsolete spelling of professly.

Words near profesly in the dictionary

  1. profersonal
  2. profert
  3. proferts
  4. profesh
  5. profeshes
  6. profesly
  7. profess
  8. professable
  9. professed
  10. professedly
  11. professer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: profesly (page history and authors); professly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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