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Definition: Avowedly |
AvowedlyAdverb1. By open declaration; "their policy has been avowedly Marxist"; "Susan Smith was professedly guilty of the murders". 2. As acknowledged; "true, she is the smartest in her class". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "avowedly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Synonyms: AvowedlySynonyms: admittedly (adv), confessedly (adv), professedly (adv), true (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Avowedly |
| English words defined with "avowedly": Adverse possession ♦ Declaredly ♦ professedly. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | More is avowedly due to her. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Indonesia | An avowedly Marxist faction called "Fretilin" achieved military superiority. (references) |
Political Economy | Poland | As for trade issues, political parties' support for reducing tariff and non-tariff trade barriers varies from the avowedly open-market stance of the Freedom Union (UW) to the generally protectionist position of PSL and the parties of the far right. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Avowedly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Avowedly" is used about 37 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 37 | 56,631 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "avowedly": self-avowedly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
avowedly | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "avowedly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | haptas (fairly, honestly, openly, patently, professedly), botërisht (openly, publicly). (various references) | |
Arabic | معلن (advertiser, announcer, declared, proclaimed, promulgator, pronounced, stated), معترف به (avowed), مصرحا به. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | както се твърди (allegedly), по общо признание (admittedly). (various references) | |
Czech | uznávanì. (various references) | |
Dutch | volgens eigen bekentenis. (various references) | |
French | de son propre déclaration, de son propre aveu, de son propre annonce. (various references) | |
German | eingestandenermaßen (admittedly). (various references) | |
Greek | ομολογούμενοσ, ομολογουμένωσ (admissibly, admittedly, concededly, confessedly, professedly). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nyíltan (aboveboard, baldly, bluntly, candidly, confessedly, fair and square, flat, frankly, genuinely, honestly, in the face of day, openly, outright, overtly, plump, professedly, sincerely, to speak out, unreservedly), beismerten. (various references) | |
Manx | dy foshlit (above board, frankly, professedly). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | avowedlyay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | manifestamente (apparently, clean, clear, clearly, distinctly, glaringly, overtly, plainly). (various references) | |
Romanian | pe faţã (baldly, barely, open, openly, ostensible, overtly), net (clear, clear-cut, decided, decidedly, flat, net, plump, Square), limpede (bright, clear, crystal, definite, distinct, evident, expressly, fair, honest, lightsome, limpid, lucid, luminous, manifest, manifestly, nakedly, obvious, overt, patently, perspicuous, perspicuously, plain, precise, pure, serene, sheer, sure), deschis (above board, artless, bald, baldly, barefaced, barely, blunt, broad, direct, downright, flatly, forthright, Frank, frankly, freehearted, free-spoken, guileless, light, naked, open, openly, outright, outspoken, overt, overtly, pale, patent, plainly, raw, round, roundly, sincere, Square, straight, straightforward, unfeigned, unreserved). (various references) | |
Russian | открыто (baldly, barely, in the face, openly, outright, overtly, patently, professedly, publicly, unreservedly), прямо (bang, direct, directly, endlong, endways, endwise, erect, foursquare, head-on, in plain English, just, on the level, outright, plainly, plump, point blank, slap, spang, squarely, straight, straight from the shoulder, straight out, straightly, up and down, uprightly). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | javno (openly, overtly, public: in public, publicly), glasno (loud, loudly, viva voce, voice: in a loud voice). (various references) | |
Turkish | alenen (frankly, in public, openly, publicly), açıkça (above board, bluntly, clear, clearly, cloudlessly, declaredly, definitely, directly, distinctly, downright, evidently, expressly, fairly, flatly, frankly, in round terms, manifestly, nakedly, openly, outright, outspokenly, plainly, plump, point blank, professedly, roundly, simply, straight out). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гласно, відверто (above board, baldly, barely, broadly, confessedly, explicitly, frankly, freely, in public, open-heartedly, openly, outright, outspokenly, plain, plainly, professedly, unreservedly, without reserve), за загальним визнанням (admittedly, confessedly), прямо (above board, baldly, bang, barely, broadly, clean, direct, directly, flush, forthright, outright, outspokenly, plainly, plump, point blank, roundly, straight, through, upright). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | công khai (barely, declared, overt, professed, professedly, public, publicly, purportedly). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Avestan | 200-600 | fraoret. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "avowedly" (pronounced uvou"udlē) |
| 4 | -u d l ē | acidly, admittedly, advisedly, allegedly, assertedly, assuredly, avidly, belatedly, candidly, contentedly, decidedly, deservedly, determinedly, doggedly, evenhandedly, excitedly, guardedly, heatedly, markedly, placidly, pointedly, purportedly, rapidly, repeatedly, reportedly, reputedly, rigidly, ruggedly, solidly, splendidly, stupidly, supposedly, timidly, unabashedly, unashamedly, undoubtedly, unexpectedly, unprecedentedly, validly, vividly, wholeheartedly, wickedly, wretchedly. |
| 3 | -d l ē | absurdly, awkwardly, badly, baldly, blandly, blindly, boldly, broadly, coldly, cowardly, crudely, cuddly, dastardly, deadly, Diddley, kindly, downwardly, fondly, friendly, gladly, godly, goodly, grandly, haphazardly, hardly, hurriedly, idly, inwardly, loudly, madly, medley, mildly, oddly, otherworldly, outwardly, profoundly, proudly, Ridley, roundly, rudely, sadly, secondly, shrewdly, soundly, straightforwardly, thirdly, unfriendly, ungodly, upwardly, weirdly, widely, wildly, worldly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-l-o-v-w-y" | |
-2 letters: avowed, yawled, yowled. | |
-3 letters: delay, dowel, laevo, laved, lawed, layed, leady, leavy, loved, lowed, odyle, vealy, voled, vowed, vowel, waldo, waled, waved, wavey, weald, woald, wyled, yawed, yodel, yodle, yowed. | |
-4 letters: aloe, alow, avow, awed, awol, dale, davy, deal, deva, dewy, dole, dove, lade, lady, lave, lead, leva, levo, levy, lewd, load, lode. | |
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