confessiones amantium

Noun

confessio amantis (plural confessiones amantis or confessiones amantium)

1. A lover’s confession.
   • We think we cannot do better than favour our gentle and ungentle readers with the two following letters — both from distinguished Accidental Old Maids — and addressed to two young maidens, who had no desire that any accident should intervene which might devote them to what they most erroneously...1835, Old Maids; Their Varieties, Characters, and Conditions, page 91