confessedly
by confession or acknowledgment; admittedly.
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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. AllenIn America we agree to this; and yet, confessedly, as a practical result we have not generally attained the end proposed.
Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions | George S. Boutwellconfessedly it is an outline; but I do not think that any vital element in the matter has been overlooked.
Messages from the Epistle to the Hebrews | Handley C.G. MouleThe hero of The Odyssey was, self-confessedly, no tyro, but was himself “in artifice well framed and in imposture various”.
Archaic England | Harold BayleyFor 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
/ (kənˈfɛsɪdlɪ) /
(sentence modifier) by admission or confession; avowedly
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