adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an avowed manner; with open declaration or acknowledgement; confessedly, openly.

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1656.  Cowley, Davideis, III. (1669), 108, note. That he should go … avowedly to Achis Court so soon after the defeat of Goliah.

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1791.  Mackintosh, Vind. Gall., Wks. 1846, III. 88. An avowedly hostile tribunal.

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1858.  Gladstone, Homer, III. 18. The avowedly mythical … character of the delineation.

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