Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CON-FESS'ED-LY
CON-FESS'ED-LY, adv.
- By confession, or acknowledgment; avowedly; undeniably. Demosthenes was confessedly the greatest orator in Greece.
- With avowed purpose; as, his object was confessedly to secure to himself a benefice.
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