reportingly — Englisches Wörterbuch

Adverb

1. By common report or rumour.

   Gebrauch

   • not-comparable
   • außer Gebrauch
   • selten

   Verwandte Wörter

   reportedly

   Beispiele

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   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.

   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.

   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.