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reconfessing

reconfessing is the present participle and gerund of reconfess.

Meaning of reconfess

Verb

reconfess (third-person singular simple present reconfesses, present participle reconfessing, simple past and past participle reconfessed)

  1. To confess again or anew.
    • The killer retracted his confession, but later reconfessed.

Questions about reconfessing

What is reconfessing the present participle and gerund of?
Reconfessing is the present participle and gerund of reconfess.

Words near reconfessing in the dictionary

  1. reconferring
  2. reconfers
  3. reconfess
  4. reconfessed
  5. reconfesses
  6. reconfessing
  7. reconfide
  8. reconfided
  9. reconfides
  10. reconfiding
  11. reconfigurabilities

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reconfessing (page history and authors); reconfess (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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