Word Meanings - UNBOSOM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To disclose freely; to reveal in confidence, as secrets; to confess; -- often used reflexively; as, to unbosom one's self. Milton.

Related words: (words related to UNBOSOM)

• CONFESSION
  The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution. Auricular confession . . . or the private and special confession of sins to a priest for the purpose of obtaining his absolution. Hallam. 4. A formulary
• CONFIDENCE
  1. The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in. Society is built upon trust, and trust upon confidence of one another's integrity. South. A cheerful confidence in
• CONFESSER
  One who makes a confession.
• CONFESSIONAL
  Pertaining to a confession of faith. Confessional equality, equality before the law of persons confessing different creeds.
• CONFESSIONALISM
  An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith. Shaff.
• CONFESSIONIST
  One professing a certain faith. Bp. Montagu.
• UNBOSOM
  To disclose freely; to reveal in confidence, as secrets; to confess; -- often used reflexively; as, to unbosom one's self. Milton.
• OFTENNESS
  Frequency. Hooker.
• DISCLOSE
  Disclosure. Shak. Young.
• CONFESSIONALIST
  A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession. Boucher
• OFTEN
  Frequently; many times; not seldom.
• CONFESSIONARY
  A confessional. Johnson.
• REVEAL
  1. To make known ; to unveil; to disclose; to show. Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, She might not, would not, yet reveal her own. Waller. 2. Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be known or discovered without divine
• CONFESSORSHIP
  The act or state of suffering persecution for religious faith. Our duty to contend even to confessorship. J. H. Newman.
• CONFESSARY
  One who makes a confession. Bp. Hall.
• DISCLOSED
  Represented with wings expanded; -- applied to doves and other birds not of prey. Cussans.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• REVEALABLE
  Capable of being revealed. -- Re*veal"a*ble*ness, n.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• OFTENSITH
  Frequently; often. For whom I sighed have so oftensith. Gascoigne.
• SELF-CONFIDENCE
  The quality or state of being self-confident; self-reliance. A feeling of self-confidence which supported and sustained him. Beaconsfield.
• UNOFTEN
  Not often.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• IRREVEALABLE
  Incapable of being revealed. -- Ir`re*veal"a*bly, adv.