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Webster 1913 Edition

adv.

By confession; without denial.

[Written also

confessly

adv.

By confession, or acknowledgment; avowedly; undeniably. Demosthenes was confessedly the greatest orator in Greece.

With avowed purpose; as, his object was confessedly to secure to himself a benefice.

confessedly ‎(comparative more confessedly, superlative most confessedly)

admittedly — see admittedly