Definition of "avowedly" []

• With open acknowledgment, declaration or verification. (adverb)

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• "This outfit, better known as the avowedly terrorist Palestine Liberation Organization, suppressed state TV coverage of West Bank Arabs on 9/11."
• "One could wonder how an account of the logic or the consistency of concepts might be described as avowedly optimistic."
• "Americans are increasingly concentrated at opposite ends of the religious spectrum—the highly religious at one pole, and the avowedly secular at the other."