AVOWEDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does avowedly mean? 

• AVOWEDLY (adverb)
  The adverb AVOWEDLY has 2 senses:

1. by open declaration

2. as acknowledged

  Familiarity information: AVOWEDLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AVOWEDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

By open declaration

Synonyms:

avowedly; professedly

Context example:

Susan Smith was professedly guilty of the murders

Pertainym:

avowed (openly declared as such)

Sense 2

Meaning:

As acknowledged

Synonyms:

admittedly; avowedly; confessedly; true

Context example:

true, she is the smartest in her class

 Context examples 

More is avowedly due to her.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She loved him; there was no withdrawing attentions avowedly dear to her.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Fanny had no share in the festivities of the season; but she enjoyed being avowedly useful as her aunt's companion when they called away the rest of the family; and, as Miss Lee had left Mansfield, she naturally became everything to Lady Bertram during the night of a ball or a party.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)