Hypertext Webster Gateway: "seemingly"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Seemingly \Seem"ing*ly\, adv.
In appearance; in show; in semblance; apparently; ostensibly.
This the father seemingly complied with. --Addison.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
seemingly
adv : from appearances alone; "irrigation often produces bumper
crops from apparently desert land"; "the child is
seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned"; "had
been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really
concealing it"-Thomas Hardy; "on the face of it the
problem seems minor" [syn: {apparently}, {ostensibly},
{on the face of it}]
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