释义 |
avowedly, adv.|əˈvaʊɪdlɪ| [f. prec. + -ly2.] In an avowed manner; with open declaration or acknowledgement; confessedly, openly.
1656Cowley Davideis iii. (1669) 108 note, That he should go..avowedly to Achis Court so soon after the defeat of Goliah. 1791Mackintosh Vind. Gall. Wks. 1846 III. 88 An avowedly hostile tribunal. 1858Gladstone Homer III. 18 The avowedly mythical..character of the delineation. |