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- adverb In a
suppositious manner.
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Examples
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ONE of the most curious of those misstatements of fact and confusions of thought the conservative seems even more prone to make than the radical has to do with a certain suppositiously historical relation between women and war.
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous
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ONE of the most curious of those misstatements of fact and confusions of thought the conservative seems even more prone to make than the radical has to do with a certain suppositiously historical relation between women and war.
The Scientific Monthly, October-December 1915 Scientific Monthly 1915
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Then I put it this way: If I went away -- not that I should, but considering it suppositiously merely -- if I went away, what would be the result?
Roger Trewinion Joseph Hocking 1898
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He had consulted some among the most eminent lawyers in England, putting the case suppositiously, or as the case of another father and son, and the unanimous opinion given was that there could be no help for such a case as theirs; and even though the father had had no other heir, he could not reclaim this disinherited one.
The Lost Lady of Lone Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859
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