unconfessed
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Adjective[edit]
unconfessed (not comparable)
- Not acknowledged in a confession.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 243:
- The Chevalier de Joinville made a third in every tête-à-tête, and was de trop in none; for he always talked to them of themselves, or entertained them at the precise moment when there was, though unconfessed, some slight approach to ennui.
- Not having confessed to a priest.
- He died unconfessed.
Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
unconfessed
- simple past and past participle of unconfess