S vs Confessed - What's the difference?
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The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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(confess)
(senseid) To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
* Addison
To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
* Bible, Matthew x. 32
* Bible, Acts xxiii. 8
(religion) To unburden (oneself) of sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution.
* Addison
(religion) To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.
* Ld. Berners
(senseid) To disclose or reveal.
* Alexander Pope
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a verb confessed is
(confess).s
Translingual
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Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }}confessed
English
Verb
(head)confess
English
Verb
(es)- People confess to anything under torture.
- I never gave it him. Send for him hither, / And let him confess a truth.
- And there confess / Humbly our faults, and pardon beg.
- I must confess I was most pleased with a beautiful prospect that none of them have mentioned.
- Whosoever, therefore, shall confess' me before men, him will I ' confess , also, before my Father which is in heaven.
- For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.
- Our beautiful votary took an opportunity of confessing herself to this celebrated father.
- He heard mass, and the prince, his son, with him, and the most part of his company were confessed .
- Tall thriving trees confessed the fruitful mould.