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confessedly

American  
[kuhn-fes-id-lee] / kənˈfɛs ɪd li /

adverb

  1. by confession or acknowledgment; admittedly.


confessedly British  
/ kənˈfɛsɪdlɪ /

adverb

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of confessedly

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

Example Sentences

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Even though I’m confessedly anti-multi, I imagine I would have been delightedly thrown for a loop in the moment, seeing those worlds collide.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 17, 2021

I listened to the audio edition read by the author, whose British accent and breathless, revelatory storytelling style are confessedly compelling.

From Scientific American Jun. 12, 2017

At times these confessedly selfish and self-involved folks seem to be working up material for a self-help book called “He’s Just Not That Into Thee.”

From New York Times Jan. 15, 2010

John Diefenbaker is proudly and confessedly a nationalist, in a nation whose oldtimers can recall when annexation by the U.S. was still a live political issue.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then Lincoln's closest counselors approached his ears with heavy words of hopelessness about the outlook in the Northern States confessedly most pivotal.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.

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