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confess
[ kuhn-fes ]
/ kÉnËfÉs /
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verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
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Origin of confess
1300â50; Middle English confessen<Anglo-French, Old French confesser<Medieval Latin confessÄre, verbal derivative of Latin confessus, past participle of confitÄrÄ« to admit, confess, equivalent to con-con- + -fitÄrÄ«, combining form of fatÄrÄ« to admit
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1. See acknowledge.
OTHER WORDS FROM confess
Words nearby confess
conferral, conferred, conferree, conferring, conferva, confess, confessant, confessedly, confession, confessional, confessionalism
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British Dictionary definitions for confess
confess
/ (kÉnËfÉs) /
verb (when tr, may take a clause as object)
(when intr, often foll by to) to make an acknowledgment or admission (of faults, misdeeds, crimes, etc)
(tr) to admit or grant to be true; concede
Christianity, mainly RC Church to declare (one's sins) to God or to a priest as his representative, so as to obtain pardon and absolution
Derived forms of confess
confessable, adjectiveWord Origin for confess
C14: from Old French confesser, from Late Latin confessÄre, from Latin confessus confessed, from confitÄrÄ« to admit, from fatÄrÄ« to acknowledge; related to Latin fÄrÄ« to speak
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