confessedly

[ kuh n-fes-id-lee ]

/ kənˈfɛs ɪd li /

adverb

by confession or acknowledgment; admittedly.

Nearby words

conferral, conferree, conferva, confess, confessant, confessedly, confession, confession of faith, confessional, confessional television, confessionalism

Origin of confessedly

First recorded in 1630–40; confess + -ed² + -ly

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Examples from the Web for confessedly

The history of the Elizabethan Prayer-Book is confessedly obscure.
A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2)|Thomas M. Lindsay
He, confessedly, was not an experienced hunter in the Rockies.
Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants|H. Irving Hancock
The distinctions between the physical and the chemical properties of bodies are confessedly artificial.
The Gospel Of Evolution|Edward Aveling
Now the comfort is, that He who sees all hearts accepted that man's confessedly imperfect faith, and granted his request.
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 9: Cuyler to Van Dyke|Various

The one dissentient voice was Sickles; and he expressed himself, confessedly, more from a political than a strategic standpoint.
The Campaign of Chancellorsville|Theodore A. Dodge

British Dictionary definitions for confessedly

confessedly

/ (kənˈfɛsɪdlɪ) /

adverb

(sentence modifier) by admission or confession; avowedly

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