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Webster 1828 Edition

Confessing

CONFESS'ING

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ppr.
Owning; avowing; declaring to be true or real; granting or admitting by assent; receiving disclosure of sins, or the state of the conscience of another.

Definition 2024

confessing

confessing

English

Verb

confessing

  1. present participle of confess

Noun

confessing ‎(plural confessings)

  1. The act of making a confession.
    • 1871, William Gilbert, The Struggle in Ferrara: A Story of the Reformation in Italy (page 100)
      He further urged the advantage of keeping alive in the hearts of the people the necessity for appeasing the divine wrath by prayers in the churches, processions, frequent confessings […]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kənˈfɛsɪŋ/

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