CONFESSEDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does confessedly mean? 

• CONFESSEDLY (adverb)
  The adverb CONFESSEDLY has 1 sense:

1. as acknowledged

  Familiarity information: CONFESSEDLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONFESSEDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

As acknowledged

Synonyms:

admittedly; avowedly; confessedly; true

Context example:

true, she is the smartest in her class

 Context examples 

By their own accounts they had been all walking after each other, and the junction which had taken place at last seemed, to Fanny's observation, to have been as much too late for re-establishing harmony, as it confessedly had been for determining on any alteration.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

That Lucy was disposed to be jealous of her appeared very probable: it was plain that Edward had always spoken highly in her praise, not merely from Lucy's assertion, but from her venturing to trust her on so short a personal acquaintance, with a secret so confessedly and evidently important.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)