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Definition of Confessed
1. confess [v] - See also: confess
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confessed
Literary usage of Confessed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"By the decree reciting and confirming his default, the bill was taken for confessed
against him; and any final decree, warranted by the allegations of the ..."
2. Looking Backward, 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy (1888)
"Kneeling before her, with my face in the dust, I confessed with tears how little
was my worth to breathe the air of this golden century, and how infinitely ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"of satisfaction, and of terror, confessed the voice of then- master. Their angry
clamours subsided into silent reverence, and Valentinian, encompassed with ..."
4. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1907)
"It must be confessed that though Orazio Vecchi was a skilful contrapuntist and
Peri was not, the Florentine composer had all the advantage on his side, ..."
5. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet, Edward Nares (1843)
"No if I have confessed all bis faults, and 100 years after Pope Gregory's
proceedings cular against Cranmer, but wha.*. he takes from was done so long ..."