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  1. Confessing

    of Confess

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of confessing in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of confessing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of confessing in a Sentence

  1. Laurence J. Peter:

    Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

  2. Joost A. Merloo:

    Psychologically, it is important to understand that the simple fact of being interviewed and investigated has a coercive influence. As soon as a man is under cross-examination, he may become paralyzed by the procedure and find himself confessing to deeds he never did. In a country where the urge to investigate spreads, suspicion and insecurity grow.

  3. Fanny Burney:

    I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

  4. Edward Surratt:

    The only reason he would be confessing is to try to finish out his years a little more comfortably, would be my opinion, i look forward to the day that, hopefully, he'll sit down and just go right down the line and confess to every one of them that he did.

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