confessing
- present participle of confess.
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Also on the slate are “Bonhoeffer,” about the anti-Nazi pastor who helped found Confessing Church and later died in a concentration camp, and “Homestead,” a post-apocalyptic survival drama starring Neal McDonough, due at Christmas.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 10, 2024
During the second world war, the community was part of the Confessing Church, an opposition movement that stood against the Nazi regime from 1934 onwards, resisting the alignment of Protestantism with National Socialism.
From The Guardian • Jan. 11, 2020
Confessing he found the Grüner “hard to describe,” Mr. Linnemann asked Mr. Liedholm what he would pair it with.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2015
Confessing means asking the reader for something — for forgiveness, for punishment, for some kind of response that makes you feel less alone.
From Salon • Jan. 20, 2013
Confessing to her behavior this morning was certainly not possible.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
