Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Patently \Pat"ent*ly\ (?; see {Patent}, a.), adv.
Openly; evidently.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
patently
adv 1: unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for
`plainly'); "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in
bed and evidently in great pain"; "he was manifestly too
important to leave off the guest list"; "it is all
patently nonsense"; "she has apparently been living here
for some time"; "I thought he owned the property, but
apparently not"; "You are plainly wrong"; "he is plain
stubborn" [syn: {obviously}, {evidently}, {manifestly},
{patently}, {apparently}, {plainly}, {plain}]