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properly speaking

ADVERB
  1. in actual fact
    properly speaking, they are not husband and wife

How To Use properly speaking In A Sentence

  • Properly speaking, all true work is religion.
  • As Judaism, except in Jerusalem, had, properly speaking, no clergy, the first comer stood up, gave the lessons of the day (parasha and haphtara), and added thereto a midrash, or entirely personal commentary, in which he expressed his own ideas. [ The Life of Jesus
  • Man is, Properly speaking, based upon hope; he has no other possession but hope.
  • [Note 48: The "kibitka," properly speaking, whether on wheels or runners, is a vehicle with a hood not unlike a big cradle.] Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse
  • This cabinet when wc saw it, was not yet arranged; it is i; i Oie building where the mint is kept, the edifice is new, tolerably spacious, and situated at the end of the bridge, at the entrance f what is, properly speaking, the city: the portal has four columns sunk in the wall, without any pedettal: they are too laree for the building, and fail of eflfect. A General collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world [microform] : many of which are now first translated into English : digested on a new plan
  • The book is something of a tour de force in creating sympathy for a character who, properly speaking, ought to arouse feelings of contempt.
  • It's not, properly speaking, champagne but it is very similar.
  • ‘‘Prerogative’ power is, properly speaking, legal power which appertains to the Crown but not to its subjects.
  • The ancient Roman rite knew nothing — properly speaking — of our modern Vespers, for, apart from the daily psalmodic cursus of the monastic choirs, the festival evening Office in its original conception was only the anticipation or extension of the vigiliary synaxis — an Office, that is, in preparation for the feast. The Station at St Paul
  • It isn't, properly speaking, a real science.
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