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Word entry · 7 letters

confess

Best crossword clue

"Admit guilt"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /kənˈfɛs/Part of speech verbSorted cefnossStarts with CEnds with S1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. admit (to a wrongdoing)

Word origin

From Middle English confessen, from Anglo-Norman confesser, from Old French confesser, from Latin confessus (Old French confés), past participle of cōnfiteor (“to confess, admit”) from con- + fateor (“to admit”). Displaced Middle English andetten (“to confess, admit”) (from Old English andettan). Doublet of confiteor.

Used in a sentence

  • I confess to spray-painting all over that mural!
  • I confess that I am a sinner.
  • I never gave it him. Send for him hither, / And let him confess a truth.

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