confessedly

[ kuhn-fes-id-lee ]

adverb
  1. by confession or acknowledgment; admittedly.

Origin of confessedly

1
First recorded in 1630–40; confess + -ed2 + -ly

Words Nearby confessedly

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How to use confessedly in a sentence

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

    Domestic Animals | Richard L. Allen
  • 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”.

    Archaic England | Harold Bayley
  • For a while we made the old sham things, which pretended to be useful things and were worse than the confessedly useless things.

    A Traveler from Altruria: Romance | William Dean Howells

British Dictionary definitions for confessedly

confessedly

/ (kənˈfɛsɪdlɪ) /


adverb
  1. (sentence modifier) by admission or confession; avowedly

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