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English
Etymology
From improbable + -ly.
Adverb
improbably (comparative more improbably, superlative most improbably)
- In an improbable manner; without probability.
2012, William Matthews, The Tragedy of Arthur, University of California Press, page 68:[…] and two enormous Scottish poems, the Buik of Alexander, which has been improbably ascribed to Barbour, and Sir Gilbert Hay's Buik of Alexander the Conquerour; one nearly complete Prose Life of Alexander and fragments of four others; a stanzaic translation of the Fuerres de Gadres which survives only in a fragment, the Romance of Cassamus, and three separate translations of the Secreta Secretorum.
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