Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Admittedly; confessedly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Confessedly.
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- adverb
Confessedly .
Etymologies
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If Obama wins, racial issues will be openly, directly, and acknowledgedly part of the national discourse for untold years to come.
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If Obama wins, racial issues will be openly, directly, and acknowledgedly part of the national discourse for untold years to come.
SeeLight: 2008
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Now, Kerala, most in India would readily agree, is a state ridden with a Communist mindset of blame, entitlement, zero accountability, and zero industry–that party has dominated the state politics for decades–and consequently, while people from Kerala acknowledgedly and deservedly work had as coolie labor and more in the oil-rich Gulf countries and other states of Kerala, they lapse back into the blame and entitlement game in Kerala.
Things Go Better With Coke? - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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So, there was your glimpse inside the mind of a Christian, one who tries hard to follow Jesus but still stumbles, and who is self-acknowledgedly foolish.
Biblical inerrancy vs. physical evidence: continued - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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More positive and more succinct than Medina was T.E. Retana whose earlier researches [48] into the history of the Philippines Medina acknowledgedly made use of, and who in 1897 published his _La Imprenta en Filipinas, Adiciones y Observaciones a La Imprenta en Manila_.
Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593. Anonymous 1951
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We have not cited here in detail the account of Juan Lopez [24] in the fifth part of his history of the Dominicans, because, although it was printed nineteen years before the appearance of Aduarte's work, the information therein contained regarding the Philippines was acknowledgedly obtained from the unfinished manuscript which Aduarte had with him in Spain.
Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593. Anonymous 1951
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From reptiles we advance to birds, and thence to mammalia, which are commenced by marsupialia, acknowledgedly low forms in their class.
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In the Colonial Conferences which have been held at intervals in London since the first Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887, Canada has been acknowledgedly first among the self-governing colonies.
Canada J. G. Bourinot
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Now all of you know that Naziism is acknowledgedly entirely opposed to any self-expression, any individualism, and any freedom.
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To walk across China, over roads acknowledgedly worse than are met with in any civilized country in the two hemispheres, and having accommodation unequalled for crudeness and insanitation, is not easy.
Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926
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