formally

The city relented, but the mayor asked the Secret Service to formally request the closure in a letter that could be made public.

I had sat beside him at the Council table; I had dined with him formally as the new Archduke, and informally as his cousin.

Young Rosenthal glanced at her friends, and, formally offering her his arm, said seriously: "You will walk with me?"

For it was his hope and his aim in this visit, that his cousin Edward should formally promise him that goodly heritage of England.

The United States are therefore now the only important Power which has not formally bound itself not to employ privateers.

I went there, and was formally introduced by Captain Wiley to my brother across a table.