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Definition of Avowedly
1. Adverb. By open declaration. "Susan Smith was professedly guilty of the murders"
2. Adverb. As acknowledged. "True, she is the smartest in her class"
Definition of Avowedly
1. Adverb. With open acknowledgment, declaration or verification. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Avowedly
1. avow [adv] - See also: avow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Avowedly
Literary usage of Avowedly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler, Richard Alexander Streatfeild (1916)
"But the question is avowedly difficult. In the end Theobald got his fellowship
by a stroke of luck very soon after taking his degree, and was ordained in ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... are avowedly very dubious ancestors of the horse. Lastly, it is well within
the range of possi- ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"S. done avowedly for the principal. Story, Ag. §251; Шок» v. Comrs. 36 Barb. 655.
But the case before us is peculiar. The act done was such that it ..."
4. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1908)
"America must be paid for slaves taken away in war, she must have Florida, she
must go on openly and avowedly making a navy for the purpose of humbling us; ..."
5. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Robert Browning openly and avowedly detested parodies. To one who had asked his
consent to quote a few lines from two of his popular poems to illustrate ..."
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