Admittedly

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².] In an admitted or acknowledged manner; by general admission; confessedly, acknowledgedly.

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1804. W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., II. 318. Both these classes of revenue are admittedly progressive.

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1865. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., IV. XI. i. 24. Many Acts of Parliament admittedly rather wise.

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1879. M. Arnold, Falkland, in Mixed Ess., 228. The good which we admittedly have in the England of to-day.

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