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avowedly
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial avowedly has 2 senses
- avowedly(r = adv.all) professedly - by open declaration; "their policy has been avowedly Marxist"; "Susan Smith was professedly guilty of the murders"
- avowedly(r = adv.all) admittedly, confessedly, true - as acknowledged; "true, she is the smartest in her class"
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