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unconfessed

unconfessed adjective: not acknowledged in a confession. Also the simple past and past participle of unconfess.

Adjective

unconfessed (not comparable)

  1. Not acknowledged in a confession.
    • 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.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 243
  2. Not having confessed to a priest.
    • He died unconfessed.

Also used as

unconfessed is also the simple past and past participle of unconfess.

Origin of unconfessed

From un- + confessed.

Questions about unconfessed

What does unconfessed mean?
Unconfessed means not acknowledged in a confession.
What part of speech is unconfessed?
Unconfessed is an adjective.

Words near unconfessed in the dictionary

  1. unconference
  2. unconferences
  3. unconferred
  4. unconfess
  5. unconfessable
  6. unconfessed
  7. unconfesses
  8. unconfessing
  9. unconfided
  10. unconfidence
  11. unconfident

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