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Meanings of confessedly in English

Portuguese
reconhecidamente

As acknowledged.

        reconhecidamente
        Usage of confessedly in English
        1
        England has confessedly failed; the world says it, the country admits it.
        Miscellaneous Prose
        2
        That is the true significance of praise offered to the confessedly great.
        The Nature of Goodness
        3
        It was confessedly bankrupt, and ruin stalked abroad throughout the United States.
        The Great Conspiracy, Volume 5
        4
        We were all, confessedly, terribly raw in all matters of Parliamentary form.
        Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria
        5
        He confessedly hath none, any more than a dog or a sheep.
        The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 / Elia and The Las...
        6
        Why not pursue an end confessedly good by peaceable and regular means?
        Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
        7
        The list was confessedly incomplete; nevertheless, the absence of his name was reassuring.
        An Echo Of Antietam / 1898
        8
        Their language and alphabet are confessedly in advance of the Egyptian.
        The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2: ...
        9
        The confusion with which I am dealing besets confessedly legal conceptions.
        The Path of the Law
        10
        But it seems to my confessedly untrained mind that you missed the point.
        The Call of the North
        11
        He is at the head, confessedly, of all the scientific men of Europe.
        Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 2: Renaissance and Refor...
        12
        I regard him, confessedly, as the best soldier the Anglo-Saxon blood has produced.
        The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. / Interviews
        13
        The confessedly criminal immigrants were paroled convicts from Sydney and other criminal colonies.
        The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dor...
        14
        And not only a spoiled old lady but a confessedly spoiled old lady.
        Half Portions
        15
        You will remark how adroitly Whitman begins, hunters and woodmen being confessedly romantic.
        Familiar Studies of Men and Books
        16
        However, she was confessedly nervous when Senator Selwyn and Philip met.
        Philip Dru: Administrator; A Story of Tomorrow, 1920-1935
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