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confessedly

[ kuhn-fes-id-lee ]

adverb

  1. by confession or acknowledgment; admittedly.


confessedly

/ kənˈfɛsɪdlɪ /

adverb

  1. sentence modifier by admission or confession; avowedly


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Word History and Origins

Origin of confessedly1

First recorded in 1630–40; confess + -ed 2 + -ly

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Example Sentences

From these have descended the high-bred, silken-fleeced Saxons, whose wool stands confessedly without a rival.

In America we agree to this; and yet, confessedly, as a practical result we have not generally attained the end proposed.

Confessedly it is an outline; but I do not think that any vital element in the matter has been overlooked.

The hero of The Odyssey was, self-confessedly, no tyro, but was himself “in artifice well framed and in imposture various”.

For a while we made the old sham things, which pretended to be useful things and were worse than the confessedly useless things.

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