seemingly

CEFRB1

/ˈsiːmɪŋli/

adverb

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Examples

Some birds indulge in aerobatics, seemingly for the sheer pleasure of doing so.
The odds were seemingly insurmountable but he overcame them to win the presidency.

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In context

The world is a place of seemingly infinite complexity.
[…] an object, seemingly like those which we have experienced, may be attended with different or contrary effects.
It was possibly chagrin at this neglect that caused James to omit the most ordinary courtesies to the few gentlemen who had behaved seemingly:[…].

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[…] an object, seemingly like those which we have experienced, may be attended with different or contrary effects.
1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral, section 15, Oxford University Press, published 1973
Mr. Woodhouse at last was off; but Mr. Knightley, instead of being immediately off likewise, sat down again, seemingly inclined for more chat. He began speaking of Harriet, and speaking of her with more voluntary praise than Emma had ever heard before.
1816, Jane Austen, chapter 8, in Emma, volume 1
Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
He sacrificed nothing, laboring to get even the most seemingly insignificant element of every record perfect.
2006, Ace Collins, More Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas, page 64
With rain lashing across the ground at kick-off and every man in Auckland seemingly either English-born or supporting Scotland, Eden Park was transformed into Murrayfield in March.
2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2023

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From Middle English semyngly, equivalent to seeming + -ly.