Feignedly

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².] In a feigned manner.

  1.  Pretendedly, not really; deceitfully.

1535.  Coverdale, Dan. xi. 34. Many shal cleue vnto them faynedly.

1602.  Warner, Alb. Eng., X. lx. (1612), 264. Yeat better plainely to reproue than fainedly to kisse.

1700.  Tyrrell, Hist. Eng., II. 723. Others, tho’ feignedly, adher’d to him.

1882–3.  Schaff, Encycl. Relig. Knowl., III. 1938/2. The conversion was not with the whole heart, but feignedly (Jer. iii. 10).

  2.  Law. By a fiction; fictitiously.

1592.  West, 1st Pt. Symbol., § 11 C. Consent is sometimes used in deede and sometimes fainedly as in law.