adv. Obs. or dial. [f. prec. + -LY2.] Apparently, seemingly.

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1554.  Knox, Godly Letter, B ij. The uprore … in which, appearinglye, he coulde not haue escaped the death.

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1656.  R. Robinson, Christ all, 177. The branches and the vine are not united appearingly, but truly. [Still used in Scotland.]

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