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confessedly
[ kuhn-fes-id-lee ]
adverb
- by confession or acknowledgment; admittedly.
confessedly
/ kənˈfɛsɪdlɪ /
adverb
- sentence modifier by admission or confession; avowedly
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Word History and Origins
Origin of confessedly1
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Example Sentences
From these have descended the high-bred, silken-fleeced Saxons, whose wool stands confessedly without a rival.
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In America we agree to this; and yet, confessedly, as a practical result we have not generally attained the end proposed.
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Confessedly it is an outline; but I do not think that any vital element in the matter has been overlooked.
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The hero of The Odyssey was, self-confessedly, no tyro, but was himself “in artifice well framed and in imposture various”.
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For a while we made the old sham things, which pretended to be useful things and were worse than the confessedly useless things.
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