confessedly
/kənˈfɛsɪdli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.27 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Admittedly; by one's own confession.
Example Sentences
- "Confessedly, he is the handsomest man in his house."
- "This attempt to confound the seven Epistles mentioned by Eusebius with the other confessedly spurious Epistles, as if they presented themselves to us with the same credentials, ignores all the important facts bearing on the question."
Etymology
Etymology tree English confessed Middle English -ly English -ly English confessedly From confessed + -ly.
Usage
Inflected Forms
more confessedly (comparative)
most confessedly (superlative)