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Definition of Confesses
1. confess [v] - See also: confess
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confesses
Literary usage of Confesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Edward Bouverie Pusey, William Benham (1909)
"... in this Augustine confesses what he then was. But first, he enquires by what
faculty we can know God at all, whence he enlarges on the mysterious ..."
2. The Bruce: Or, The Book of the Most Excellent and Noble Prince, Robert de by John Barbour, John Lydgate (1894)
"He confesses that he knew of the plot, but did not consent to it. 43. thai] at EH.
44. syne] sone E; then H. 45. all that] so E; that haill H ; that C. 46. ..."
3. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"He declares his belief in the divinity of Christ, though he confesses to certain
doubts and guards his assertions. He had qualified for Hie preferment by ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... and confesses to have been derived from divine revelation. Its content,
accordingly, embraces all Christian truth so far as it exists in 4. ..."