"confessedly" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "confessed",
        "3": "ly"
      },
      "expansion": "confessed + -ly",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From confessed + -ly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more confessedly",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most confessedly",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "confessedly (comparative more confessedly, superlative most confessedly)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "57 43",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "60 40",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ly",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Confessedly, he is the handsomest man in his house."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Admittedly; by one's own confession."
      ],
      "id": "en-confessedly-en-adv-Wz2yLhol",
      "links": [
        [
          "Admittedly",
          "admittedly"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "37 63",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1889, Joseph Lightfoot, Essays on the work entitled \"Supernatural Religion\"",
          "text": "This attempt to confound the seven Epistles mentioned by Eusebius with the other confessedly spurious Epistles, as if they presented themselves to us with the same credentials, ignores all the important facts bearing on the question.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a way that is generally acknowledged."
      ],
      "id": "en-confessedly-en-adv-BLRpiBtY",
      "links": [
        [
          "generally",
          "generally"
        ],
        [
          "acknowledge",
          "acknowledge"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) In a way that is generally acknowledged."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "confessedly"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adverbs",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English speech-act adverbs",
    "English terms suffixed with -ly"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "confessed",
        "3": "ly"
      },
      "expansion": "confessed + -ly",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From confessed + -ly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more confessedly",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most confessedly",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "confessedly (comparative more confessedly, superlative most confessedly)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Confessedly, he is the handsomest man in his house."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Admittedly; by one's own confession."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Admittedly",
          "admittedly"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1889, Joseph Lightfoot, Essays on the work entitled \"Supernatural Religion\"",
          "text": "This attempt to confound the seven Epistles mentioned by Eusebius with the other confessedly spurious Epistles, as if they presented themselves to us with the same credentials, ignores all the important facts bearing on the question.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a way that is generally acknowledged."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "generally",
          "generally"
        ],
        [
          "acknowledge",
          "acknowledge"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) In a way that is generally acknowledged."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "confessedly"
}