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Definition of Fessed
1. fess [v] - See also: fess
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fessed
Literary usage of Fessed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1816)
"the unwarlike people of Greece and Asia, it was con- CHAP. fessed on both sides,
that the Turks and the Franks Lvm were the only nations entitled to the ..."
2. Records of the Court of Assistants of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay by Massachusetts Court of Assistants, John Noble, John Francis Cronin (1904)
"... con- fessed it, & was fined 31. Jacob smith dii- Jacob Smyth was discharged
for want of evidence chard. vpon his imprisonment. ..."
3. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"ONK thing very particular I observed in the way as we went in the night-time :
going to- fessed, possessed astonishing powers of oratory, ..."
4. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"175. said John Capper, it had been bad, as that would have con- Art. 18.
fessed that John Capper was the true name. Judgment for ^^-v-^^- the deft. ..."
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