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properly speaking

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Adv.1.properly speaking - in actual fact; "properly speaking, they are not husband and wife"
strictly speaking, to be precise


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But these two cases were, properly speaking, pathological cases, and the only two in all my sea experience.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
The Stadtholder has a country-house, one league distant from Leyden, properly speaking a kind of large dairy, and my aunt, who was his nurse, has the management of it.
The Black Tulip by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
Philologists have said that there are but two or three languages, properly speaking, among all the numerous tribes which formerly occupied the country that now composes the United States.
The Last of The Mohicans by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
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