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confessed

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con·fess  (kn-fs)
v. con·fessed, con·fess·ing, con·fess·es
v.tr.
1. To disclose (something damaging or inconvenient to oneself); admit. See Synonyms at acknowledge.
2. To acknowledge belief or faith in; profess.
3.
a. To make known (one's sins) to God or to a priest.
b. To hear the confession of (a penitent).
v.intr.
1. To admit or acknowledge something damaging or inconvenient to oneself: The suspect confessed to the crime.
2.
a. To disclose one's sins to a priest.
b. To listen to a confession.

[Middle English confessen, from Old French confesser, from Vulgar Latin *cnfessre, from Latin cnfitr, cnfess- : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + fatr, to admit; see bh-2 in Indo-European roots.]

con·fessa·ble adj.
con·fessed·ly (-d-l) adv.
Translations
confessed [kənˈfest] ADJdeclarado
confessed
adj (= admitted) planzugegeben, erklärt, eingestanden; (= having confessed) criminalgeständig; (= self-confessed) revolutionaryerklärt; alcoholic, criminaleigenen Eingeständnisses, nach eigenen Angaben


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When Charmolue had installed himself in a magisterial manner in his own, he seated himself, then rose and said, without exhibiting too much self-complacency at his success,--"The accused has confessed all.
And the Truly Good Man humbly confessed that it was so.
A thousand times rather would I have confessed myself guilty of the crime ascribed to Justine, but I was absent when it was committed, and such a declaration would have been considered as the ravings of a madman and would not have exculpated her who suffered through me.
 
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