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副詞

reportingly (not comparable)

1. (obsolete, まれに) By common report or rumour.
   • c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act III, Scene 1,^[1]

     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, The Law of Actionable Misrepresentation, London: Butterworth, Chapter 1, p. 51,^[2]

     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,^[3]

     […] he receives the significant comment that ere six years are gone he shall know the worth of the Malaspini better than reportingly.

参考

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