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properly speaking

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

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  • Is not this effect nearly similar to that produced by the combination of phosphorus and sulphur, or, more properly speaking, the _phosphuret of sulphur_? Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
  • Wherefore, properly speaking, to backbite is to speak ill of an absent person in order to blacken his good name. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
  • Properly speaking, a superaltar is a small movable slab of stone, which is placed, as occasion for the celebration of the Holy Communion may require, upon some unconsecrated table or altar.
  • properly speaking, they are not husband and wife
  • The subject is not, properly speaking , a science.
  • But prayer, generally considered, embraces all the above-mentioned parts; when, however, we distinguish one part against another, _prayer_, properly speaking, means the uplifting of the mind to God. On Prayer and The Contemplative Life
  • 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 The Life of Jesus
  • Munich suffers more at every visitation than almost any other European city, and typhus, which is always at home within its limits, are not, properly speaking, climatal diseases, it would seem at first sight unnecessary to consider the situation of Munich in this respect. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
  • This range, which runs from Chichester eastward as far as East Bourn, is about sixty miles in length, and is called the South Downs, properly speaking, only round Lewes. Highways & Byways in Sussex
  • Properly speaking, the term Haskalah includes the notion at once of humanism and humanitarianism.] The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885)
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