Hypertext Webster Gateway: "avowedly"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Avowed \A*vowed"\, a.
Openly acknowledged or declared; admitted. -- {A*vow"ed*ly},
adv.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
avowedly
adv 1: by open declaration; "their policy has been avowedly
Marxist"; "Susan Smith was professedly guilty of the
murders" [syn: {professedly}]
2: as acknowledged; "true, she is the smartest in her class"
[syn: {true}, {admittedly}, {confessedly}]
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