Definition of "confessedly" [con•fess•ed•ly]

• Admittedly. (adverb)

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• "The nickname confessedly arose, so far as France was concerned, first in"
• "But here, where many native flowers have no popular names at all, and others are called confessedly by wrong ones, -- where it really costs less trouble to use Latin names than English, the affectation seems the other way."
• ""pillar and ground," and these substantives, the third, a much weaker one, and that an adjective, "confessedly," or "without controversy great," would not come."