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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb By general admission; confessedly.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an acknowledged manner; confessedly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb As is acknowledged to be true; by general admission; confessedly.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb as acknowledged

Etymologies

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admitted +‎ -ly

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