Confiteor

American  

[kuhn-fit-ee-awr] / kənˈfɪt iˌɔr /

noun

Roman Catholic Church.

1. a prayer in the form of a general confession said at the beginning of the Mass and on certain other occasions.

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Confiteor British  

/ kənˈfɪtɪˌɔː /

noun

1. RC Church a prayer consisting of a general confession of sinfulness and an entreaty for forgiveness

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Etymology

Origin of Confiteor

1150–1200; Middle English; after first word of Latin prayer: I confess

Example Sentences

In another section of the one-and-a-half pages of German in the letter, he openly wonders if he, as all Catholic do in a prayer known as the Confiteor at Mass, should ask for forgiveness for what they have done and what they have failed to do "by my fault, by my most grievous fault".

From Reuters

And their most daring harmonic adventures—for example, the otherworldly modulations in the “Confiteor” of the B-Minor Mass—look ahead to Wagner, even to Schoenberg.

From The New Yorker

The chorus was well blended and sang with an ear for color, an effect particularly striking in the Credo, where the dark chromaticism of the “Et incarnatus est” and “Crucifixus” sections contrast vividly with the grandeur of the “Confiteor” and “Et expecto” settings that follow.

From New York Times

Then he took from his pocket the prayer-book that she had given him, and read several times the act of contrition and the Confiteor.

From Project Gutenberg

Then he went over again the sins that he had to confess, and he repeated the Confiteor and the act of contrition.

From Project Gutenberg