confessedly

[ kuh n-fes-id-lee ]

/ kənˈfɛs ɪd li /

by confession or acknowledgment; admittedly.

Origin of confessedly

First recorded in 1630–40; confess + -ed² + -ly

The history of the Elizabethan Prayer-Book is confessedly obscure.

A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2) |Thomas M. Lindsay
He, confessedly, was not an experienced hunter in the Rockies.

Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants |H. Irving Hancock
The distinctions between the physical and the chemical properties of bodies are confessedly artificial.

The Gospel Of Evolution |Edward Aveling
Now the comfort is, that He who sees all hearts accepted that man's confessedly imperfect faith, and granted his request.

The World's Great Sermons, Volume 9: Cuyler to Van Dyke |Various

The one dissentient voice was Sickles; and he expressed himself, confessedly, more from a political than a strategic standpoint.

The Campaign of Chancellorsville |Theodore A. Dodge

confessedly

/ (kənˈfɛsɪdlɪ) /

(sentence modifier) by admission or confession; avowedly