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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Ostensibly \Os*ten"si*bly\ ([o^]s*t[e^]n"s[i^]*bl[y^]), adv.
In an ostensible manner; avowedly; professedly; apparently.
--Walsh.
[1913 Webster]
Ostensibly, we were intended to prevent filibustering
into Texas, but really as a menace to Mexico. --U. S.
Grant.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ostensibly
adv 1: 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}, {seemingly},
{ostensibly}, {on the face of it}]
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