Admittedly; by one's own admission or acknowledgment of something as true.
From confessed (past tense of confess) + -ly (Old English adverbial suffix). The adverb form emphasizes that something is admitted or acknowledged rather than merely suspected or proven.
Confessedly is often used in formal or literary writing to gracefully concede a point—'Confessedly, I was wrong'—which is a more elegant way of surrendering ground in an argument than simply saying 'I was wrong.'
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