Reportingly
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Reportingly is an adverb meaning (obsolete, rare) By common report or rumour.
Meaning
(obsolete, rare) By common report or rumour.
Example Sentences
If thou dost love, my kindness shall incite thee To bind our loves up in a holy band; For others say thou dost deserve, and I Believe it better than reportingly.
1911, C. E. Wheeler (translator), The Divine Comedy, Volume 2, Purgatory, London: J.M. Dent, summary of Canto 8, p. 53, […] he receives the significant comment that ere six years are gone he shall know the worth of the Malaspini better than reportingly.
If a man, having a genuine opinion on any matter (b), chooses, nevertheless, to state it as a fact, or, having information, expresses the subject of it, in Beatrice’s phrase, “better than reportingly,” he must take all the risks, and abide by all the consequences, attending a representation pure and simple.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include rumoredly, reportedly, reputatively, reputedly, reportatively, reportorially.
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