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English
Etymology
From reporting + -ly.
Adverb
reportingly (not comparable)
- (obsolete, rare) By common report or rumour.
1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :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.
1911, George Spencer Bower, chapter 1, in The Law of Actionable Misrepresentation, London: Butterworth, page 51: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.
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