confess
verb (used with object)
to acknowledge or avow (a fault, crime, misdeed, weakness, etc.) by way of revelation.
am confessing
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present progressiveof confess (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I am confessing and not excusing myself, Miss Mayhew.
From A Face Illumined by Edward Payson Roe
I am confessing this but to those who themselves have been lost in the dark, and are 83 now awake again.
From Waiting for Daylight by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
I have committed a great sin, and my soul trembles while I am confessing it before you.
From An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story by C. S. de Soissons
I am confessing, for the first time––and the last time.
From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by J. N. Marchand
I feel as if I am confessing a fault to you when I tell you I have heard from him at last—and more, that I was so glad to hear!
From Told In The Hills by Marah Ellis Ryan
