Crossword-Solution: CONFESSING 10 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

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Confessing p. pr. & vb. n. of Confess

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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CONFESSING (5)

And if he shrinks, let him reflect that thus Confessing he shall ’scape the capital charge; For the worst penalty that shall befall him Is banishment—unscathed he shall depart.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
His antagonist sprung from horseback, waved his fatal sword over the head of his adversary, and commanded him to yield himself; when Prince John, more moved by the Templars dangerous situation than he had been by that of his rival, saved him the mortification of confessing himself vanquished, by casting down his warder, and putting an end to the conflict.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
You know, Watson, I don’t mind confessing to you that I have always had an idea that I would have made a highly efficient criminal.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1994
Franklin; “but, if the girl _is_ concerned in the loss of the Diamond, I do really believe she was on the point of confessing everything—to me, of all the people in the world—not two minutes since.” Looking towards the swing-door, as he said those last words, I fancied I saw it opened a little way from the inner side.
The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1994
From our relative situation, those attentions were her due, and were felt to be so.—Whether Miss Woodhouse began really to understand me before the expiration of that fortnight, I cannot say;—when I called to take leave of her, I remember that I was within a moment of confessing the truth, and I then fancied she was not without suspicion; but I have no doubt of her having since detected me, at least in some degree.—She may not have surmised the whole, but her quickness must have penetrated a part.
Emma Jane Austen 1994

Quotes with CONFESSING (3)

The following year the house was substantially remodeled, and the conservatory removed. As the walls of the now crumbling wall were being torn down, one of the workmen chanced upon a small leatherbound book that had apparently been concealed behind a loose brick or in a crevice in the wall. By this time Emily Dickinson was a household name in Amherst. It happened that this carpenter was a lover of poetry- and hers in particular- and when he opened the little book and realized…
Jamie Fuller The Diary of Emily Dickinson
How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko Stolen Apples
You alone in Europe are not ancient oh Christianity The most modern European is you Pope Pius XAnd you whom the windows observe shame keeps you From entering a church and confessing this morning You read the prospectuses the catalogues the billboards that sing aloud That's the poetry this morning and for the prose there are the newspapers There are the 25 centime serials full of murder mysteries Portraits of great men and a thousand different headlines("Zone")
Guillaume Apollinaire Zone
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