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 Roe, Edward Payson
To-night I am confessing a wrong I have done you.
From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth
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 Soissons, C. S. de
I am confessing, for the first time––and the last time.
From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by Marchand, J. N.
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 Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)
