This is not, properly speaking, an exception to the rule so much as an explanation of it.
Cyathea, a species of which I have seen in the South American Missions of Caripe, measuring 33 feet in height; this is not, however, properly speaking a tree.
Charity also loves our neighbor on account of God, so that its object, properly speaking, is God, as we shall show further on (Q.
The virtue of obedience is seated, properly speaking, in the will; hence promptness of the will subject to authority, suffices for the act of obedience, because it is the proper and direct object of obedience.
In this way thought is, properly speaking, the movement of the mind while yet deliberating, and not yet perfected by the clear sight of truth.
Properly speaking, the sin of blasphemy is not in this way divided into three species: since to affirm unfitting things, or to deny fitting things of God, differ merely as affirmation and negation.
They are of cylindrical shape, having, properly speaking, no neck, and the blunt tail which is only about an inch in length, is of the same shape as the head.
I do not believe in the public; I do not believe in my own work; I have no ambition, properly speaking, and I blow soap-bubbles for want of something to do.
Profundity and purity, these are what he possesses in a high degree, but not greatness, properly speaking.
True, O Radical Reformer, there is no Custom that can, properly speaking, be final; none.
Properly speaking, the Land belongs to these two: To the Almighty God; and to all His Children of Men that have ever worked well on it, or that shall ever work well on it.
The age of Curiosity, like that of Chivalry, is indeed, properly speaking, gone.
As you perceive, therefore, the stomach has, properly speaking, no fixed size.
Thus it is, properly speaking, not work, but tedium, the most deadening, wearing process conceivable.
That prudence is not the only fundamental virtue, most men would be ready enough to admit; but is it properly speaking, a virtue at all?
In criticizing this citation I must point out that curiosity is not, properly speaking, an object of choice at all.
An immense crowd, which overflowed into all the neighboring streets, encumbered the Place, properly speaking.
Students furnished more of a crowd and more noise there than artisans, and there was not, properly speaking, any quay, except from the Pont Saint-Michel to the Tour de Nesle.
Of course, properly speaking, that exhortation does not refer to our manner of fighting with the sword, but to the previous act by which our hand grasps it.
Properly speaking, we can do neither the one nor the other, for we have no line long enough to sound its depths, and no experience which will give us a standard with which to compare its quality.
The Australians have, properly speaking, no bears, though the animal called the native bear is looked up to by the aborigines with superstitious regard.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "properly speaking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
