Seem·ing·ly, adv. In appearance; in show; in semblance; apparently; ostensibly.
     This the father seemingly complied with.   --Addison.
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  seemingly
       adv : from appearances alone; "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" [syn: apparently, ostensibly,
             on the face of it]