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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
confess .
Etymologies
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Examples
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“‘He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy,’” said Merry.
Best Friends Forever Jennifer Weiner 2009
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“‘He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy,’” said Merry.
Best Friends Forever Jennifer Weiner 2009
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“‘He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy,’” said Merry.
Best Friends Forever Jennifer Weiner 2009
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Know that love is a tyrant and the hiding it melteth iron and entaileth sickness and unease; nor for whoso confesseth it is there aught of reproach.
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Then said she to them, “Ho folk, ye shall not be relieved of what is with you till ye confess your sins; for, when the creature confesseth his sins the Creator relenteth towards him and granteth him that wherefore he resorteth to him.”
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He saluted and kissed the ground; then held his hands behind him and stood, with his head hanging down, as one who confesseth to a fault.
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David, a man after God's own heart, confesseth as much of himself, Psal. xxxvii.
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Humphrey Llwyd confesseth, a Cambro-Briton himself, in his elegant epistle to Abraham Ortelius, they live most on white meats: in
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Paracelsus confesseth that he saw them divers times, and conferred with them, and so doth Alexander ab [1135] Alexandro, that he so found it by experience, when as before he doubted of it.
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[848] I am afflicted, and at the point of death, so David confesseth of himself, Psal.lxxxviii. v. 15, v. 9.
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