Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Seemingly \Seem"ing*ly\, adv.
   In appearance; in show; in semblance; apparently; ostensibly.

         This the father seemingly complied with. --Addison.

Source : WordNet®

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}]