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Definition of Properly speaking
1. Adverb. In actual fact. "Properly speaking, they are not husband and wife"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Properly Speaking
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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