confess
verb (used with object)
to acknowledge or avow (a fault, crime, misdeed, weakness, etc.) by way of revelation.
half-confessed
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a word derived from
confess.
Example Sentences
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Midseason, the priest he half-confessed to in the first episode offers his ear once again, in case Murdock wants to tell his secret, but Murdock plays coy.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2015
Nevertheless, he experienced a gnawing uncertainty, amounting to a half-confessed dread.
From Success A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams
For candour's want yet neither blame; Even to ourselves but half-confessed, Glows in each heart some silent flame, Blooms some hope-violet of the breast.
From An Anthology of Australian Verse by Bertram Stevens
Something would happen, and the vague, half-confessed intention that had been in his mind for some time now was a little more defined.
From Fortitude by Sir Hugh Walpole
And within the same group we find the contrasts of believers in monophyletic and believers in polyphyletic evolution, the mechanists and the half-confessed or thoroughgoing vitalists, the preformationists and the believers in epigenesis.
From Naturalism And Religion by Rudolf Otto
