reportingly

Adverb

1. By common report or rumour.
   • If thou dost love, my kindness shall incite thee To bind our loves up in a holy band; For others say thou dost deserve, and I Believe it better than reportingly. - 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare,...
   • If a man, having a genuine opinion on any matter (b), chooses, nevertheless, to state it as a fact, or, having information, expresses the subject of it, in Beatrice’s phrase, “better than reportingly,” he must take all...
   • 1911, C. E. Wheeler (translator), The Divine Comedy, Volume 2, Purgatory, London: J.M. Dent, summary of Canto 8, p. 53, […] he receives the significant comment that ere six years are gone he shall know the worth of the...