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- noun A form of
Roman Catholic prayer in whichpublic confession ofsins is made.
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Examples
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The 'confiteor' had just commenced, but Fray Antonio motioned to the priests, who interrupted the Mass, and Ulrich, holding the prophet's standard high aloft, exclaimed: "An unparalleled victory!
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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I advise you to conceal yourself, my little friend, as I have said a moment ago and put your hands in my hands and have a nightslong homely little confiteor about things.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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And that thei should receiue the sacrament of the aulter cleane from the filthe of sinne, vppon the whiche consideracion at this daye it endeth with confiteor, or an open confession.
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[Marginal note: That is, he saieth confiteor.] of his sinnes together with his company.
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Here I am down on my knees; confiteor; your holy blessing.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Here I am down on my knees; confiteor; your holy blessing.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Hoc idem plerique solent etiam in illis dictionibus facere, in quibus a FI brevi incipiunt syllabae sequentibus supra dictis consonantibus, ut _fides, perfidus, confiteor, infimus, firmus_.
The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord
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The Confiteor (so called from the first word, confiteor, I confess) is a general confession of sins; it is used in the Roman Rite at the beginning of Mass and on various other occasions as a preparation for the reception of some grace.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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C. haec ego, confiteor, dixi, Meliboee, sed olim: non eadem nobis sunt tempora, non deus idem.
A Singing Match Calpurnius 1912
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So Antichristus has two columns, that is to say a folio page: confiteor 1½, conscientia 2¼, ordo 2½, virgo two columns.
The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London 1901
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