Definition of Properly speaking

1. Adverb. In actual fact. "Properly speaking, they are not husband and wife"


Lexicographical Neighbors of Properly Speaking

proper nouns
proper subset
properate
properating
properation
properdin
properdins
properer
properest
properidine
properispome
properispomenon
properispomenons
properispomes
properly
properly speaking (current term)
properness
propernesses
propers
propertie
propertied
properties
property
property-owning
property ladder
property law
property line
property man
property master
property owner

Literary usage of Properly speaking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"In the Integral Calculus, properly speaking, only integrals of the type I f(x, "i, <>i . . . )dx are considered, where f(x, a,, a,, . ..."

2. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, Charles M. Barnes (1884)
"In respect to remedies, there are, properly speaking, three places of jurisdiction : (1.) The place of domicile of ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"... properly speaking, salvage on the freight, but they are charges paid by the owner of the ship for the benefit of those to whom he abandoned it. ..."

4. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"It is not, properly speaking, a style, because it is attainable in many distinct styles; that is to say, in many distinct phases of mental effort. ..."

5. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (1907)
"... is not properly speaking a law. A declaratory What has been termed a declaratory law, so far as it stands distinguished »law. ..."

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