confessedly

American  

[kuhn-fes-id-lee] / kənˈfɛs ɪd li /

adverb

1. by confession or acknowledgment; admittedly.

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confessedly British  

/ kənˈfɛsɪdlɪ /

adverb

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

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Etymology

Origin of confessedly

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

Example Sentences

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

The body of the bond was confessedly the handwriting of the prisoner at the bar.

From Memoir of John Howe Peyton in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton by Various