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pro confesso

pro confesso adverb: as if an offence had been confessed or admitted.

Adverb

pro confesso (not comparable)

  1. As if an offence had been confessed or admitted.
    • His failure to respond meant he was sentenced pro confesso.

Origin of pro confesso

Borrowed from Latin prō cōnfessō (“as, instead of it being confessed”).

Questions about pro confesso

What does pro confesso mean?
Pro confesso means as if an offence had been confessed or admitted.
What part of speech is pro confesso?
Pro confesso is an adverb.

Words near pro confesso in the dictionary

  1. pro and con
  2. pro and conned
  3. pro and conning
  4. pro and cons
  5. pro bono
  6. pro confesso
  7. pro domino
  8. pro eo quod
  9. pro forma
  10. pro formas
  11. pro hac vice

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