| 单词 | to confess and avoid |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto confess and avoid a. intransitive. To admit the truth of what is charged; to make a confession. to confess and avoid: to admit a charge, but show it to be invalid in law. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > acknowledgement, avowal, or confession > acknowledge, avow, or confess [verb (intransitive)] to be beknowna1300 acknowc1300 knowledgec1384 knowa1400 confess1587 subscribea1616 own1772 testify1785 the mind > language > statement > acknowledgement, avowal, or confession > acknowledge, avow, or confess [verb (intransitive)] > admit to a charge but show it to be invalid to confess and avoid1587 the mind > language > statement > acknowledgement, avowal, or confession > acknowledge, avow, or confess [verb (transitive)] > confess (in law) confess1587 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > pleading > plead [verb (intransitive)] > plead guilty or not guilty > admit but show charge invalid to confess and avoid1587 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1272/1 I determine..to confesse and auoid..whatsoeuer imperfections haue now distilled out of my pen. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 190 The good Orator..will first admit it, and in th'end auoid all for his better aduantage, and this figure is much vsed by our English pleaders in the Starchamber and Chancery, which they call to confesse and auoid. 1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) III. 37 He may confess and avoid, confess and justify, or confess and mitigate. < as lemmas |
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