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confiteor

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Con⋅fit⋅e⋅or

  [kuhn-fit-ee-awr]
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–noun Roman Catholic Church.
a prayer in the form of a general confession said at the beginning of the Mass and on certain other occasions.
Origin:
1150–1200; ME; after first word of Latin prayer: I confess
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Con·fi·te·or   (kən-fē'tē-ər, -ôr')   
n.  A prayer in which confession of sins is made.

[Latin Cōnfiteor, I confess, the first word of the prayer, first person sing. present tense of confitērī, to acknowledge; see confess.]
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