"profesly" meaning in English

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Adverb

Forms: more profesly [comparative], most profesly [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adv}} profesly (comparative more profesly, superlative most profesly)
  1. Obsolete spelling of professly. Tags: alt-of, obsolete Alternative form of: professly
    Sense id: en-profesly-en-adv-EiKLq~im Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "text": "Imputation argueth that I have and doe nothing, but another hath, and another doth for mee, and imputes it to mee: the Church of Rome profeſly holds the contrary, and punctually point blanke in the force of contradiction: they are the very words of the Councell, the alone formall cauſe, and that which gives life and being to the juſtification of a ſinner; it is the change and frame of holineſſe wrought in him, not imputed to him, this is profeſly contrary.",
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          "text": "But why in an Apoplexy, the Pulſe is hard and great, we muſt ſearch it from the nature of a diſeaſe, which I will at ſometime profeſly touch at in a Book, and that of the diſeaſe of the Stone.",
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