Ostensively

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • ad. In an ostensive manner.
  • ad. Ostensibly.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • ad. In an ostensive manner.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In appearance; ostensibly.
  • Word Usage
    "This is brought out "ostensively," as Bacon would say, in "Don Quixote," or in the Russian novel "A Simple Story" -- apparently so called because it is so complex -- in which Gontcharov's hero lives in what Alice might call"