grantedly
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grantedly (comparative more grantedly, superlative most grantedly)
- as has been or must be granted or admitted
- Synonyms: admittedly, confessedly, granted
- 1984 (April 15), Mona Simpson, New York Times In Short book review of novel "The Tiger in the Tiger Pit" by Turner Hospital :
- The psychological simplification, implicit in an attempt to explain five adult lives by the - grantedly dramatic - events of one night is heavy-handed and untrue, and the characters think tritely, with lines like "I sit helpless, chained to my chair, manacled to my unedited and unacceptable life."
- as is acknowledged to be true; by general admission
- as is beyond question, as is not to be doubted
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by admission
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