adverb
- With validity; in a valid manner.
- usage: "this may not validly be done"
Validly and Ostensibly
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(adv.) In a valid manner; so as to be valid.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
adverb
- From appearances alone.
- usage: "irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparently desert land"; "the child is seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned"; "had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it-Thomas Hardy; "on the face of it the problem seems minor"
- synonyms: apparently, seemingly, on the face of it
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(adv.) In an ostensible manner; avowedly; professedly; apparently.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary