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
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
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
Some half-confessed meed of admiration, already astir in her nature for the horseman and his way, increased as he breasted the ascent.
From The Furnace of Gold by J. N. Marchand
