Both Uses
ostensibly
in
Gone with the Wind
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- Ostensibly it was Miss Pitty he came to see and she had no better sense than to believe it and give herself airs over his visits.†
Chpt 4.36 *
- Ostensibly the pony was for all three children and Rhett bought a saddle for Wade too.†
Chpt 5.59
Definitions:
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(1)
(ostensibly) appearing as such, but not so (sometimes only possibly not so)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)