confiteor

• “The 'confiteor' had just commenced, but Fray Antonio motioned to the priests, who interrupted the Mass, and Ulrich, holding the prophet's standard high aloft, exclaimed: "An unparalleled victory!”

  Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works

• “I advise you to conceal yourself, my little friend, as I have said a moment ago and put your hands in my hands and have a nightslong homely little confiteor about things.”

  Finnegans Wake

• “[Marginal note: That is, he saieth confiteor.] of his sinnes together with his company.”

  The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie

• “And that thei should receiue the sacrament of the aulter cleane from the filthe of sinne, vppon the whiche consideracion at this daye it endeth with confiteor, or an open confession.”

  The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie

• “Here I am down on my knees; confiteor; your holy blessing.”

  Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

• “Hoc idem plerique solent etiam in illis dictionibus facere, in quibus a FI brevi incipiunt syllabae sequentibus supra dictis consonantibus, ut _fides, perfidus, confiteor, infimus, firmus_.”

  The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it

• “The Confiteor (so called from the first word, confiteor, I confess) is a general confession of sins; it is used in the Roman Rite at the beginning of Mass and on various other occasions as a preparation for the reception of some grace.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery

• “C. haec ego, confiteor, dixi, Meliboee, sed olim: non eadem nobis sunt tempora, non deus idem.”

  A Singing Match

• “So Antichristus has two columns, that is to say a folio page: confiteor 1½, conscientia 2¼, ordo 2½, virgo two columns.”

  The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London

• “And to the entent he may the more surely and devoutly consecrate the said sacrament, he confesseth himself generally of all his sins, saying his confiteor, by the which confiteor he showeth four things.”

  The Golden Legend, vol. 7

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