| 单词 |
pretensively |
| 释义 |
preˈtensively, adv. rare. [f. prec. + -ly2.] In a pretensive manner; professedly; as a pretext.
1607Schol. Disc. agst. Antichr. i. i. 36 A stand against them, who pleade fiue things, against the sentence of abolition, for this grosse Idoll pretenciuely chaunged. 1656Heylin Surv. France 262 There passed an Act of Parliament pretensively against the depopulation of Villages, and decay of tillage, but purposedly to inable his subjects for the wars. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Warres 601 He would not vouchsafe to inquire what might be pretensively said, either from the Antients, or at present for the Austrians against them of Cleves. |

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