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Meanings of confess in English
Usage of confess in English
1
If the torture be too great to bear, say: 'I will confess.
2
Catholics whose conscientious decision was to vote Yes have nothing to confess.
3
Failing to confess something sufficiently shameful would result in them being punished.
4
I confess to concealing myself in order to hear what was said.
5
There's no need to confess that you forgot to say thank you.
6
I confess, in the streets and in my lodgings I am frightened.
7
In the eighteenth article they confess the power of the Free Will-viz.
8
The medics said they were innocent and had been tortured to confess.
9
Yes, I know; though I confess I have little faith in it.
10
Now she has had to confess the address because she needs help.
11
I confess I didn't know until today that you wrote verse yourself.
12
I confess I delight extremely in looking on men in that light.
13
Good again; but then all confess that somehow whaling is not respectable.
14
I must confess that I am disappointed in the ministers-theUnitarian ministers.
15
I confess I don't fully understand such things, but it proved sufficient.
16
The pride that will not confess to having been in the wrong.
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Confess across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common
Ireland
Rare