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confess
English
Etymology
From Middle English confessen, from Anglo-Norman confesser, from Old French confesser, from Medieval Latin confess? (“I confess”), a derivative of Latin confessus (Old French confés), past participle of c?nfiteor (“I confess, I admit”) from con- + fateor (“I admit”). Displaced Middle English andetten (“to confess, admit”) (from Old English andettan).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?f?s/
- Rhymes: -?s
Verb
confess (third-person singular simple present confesses, present participle confessing, simple past and past participle confessed)
- To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.
- I confess to spray-painting all over that mural!
- I confess that I am a sinner.
- I must confess I was most pleased with a beautiful prospect that none of them have mentioned.
- To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
- Whosoever, therefore, shall confess me before men, him will I confess, also, before my Father which is in heaven.
- For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.
- (religion) To unburden (oneself) of sins to God or a priest, in order to receive absolution.
- Our beautiful votary took an opportunity of confessing herself to this celebrated father.
- (religion) To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.
- 1523–1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (translator), Froissart's Chronicles
- He […] heard mass, and the prince, his son, with him, and the most part of his company were confessed.
- 1523–1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (translator), Froissart's Chronicles
- To disclose or reveal.
Derived terms
- fess, fess up
Related terms
- confession
- confessional
- confessor
Translations
See also
- own up
- come clean
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proclaim
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French proclamer, from Latin pr?cl?m?, pr?cl?m?re, from pr?- (“forth”) + cl?m? (“to shout, cry out”). Spelling altered by influence of claim, from the same Latin source (cl?m?).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?o??kle?m/
- Rhymes: -e?m
- Hyphenation: pro?claim
Verb
proclaim (third-person singular simple present proclaims, present participle proclaiming, simple past and past participle proclaimed)
- To announce or declare.
Synonyms
- (to announce or declare): disclose, make known; See also Thesaurus:announce
Derived terms
- proclaimed district
- self-proclaimed
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- picloram
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