confessio amantis

plural confessiones amantis · plural confessiones amantium

1. A lover’s confession.

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   We think we cannot do better than favour our gentle and ungentle readers with the two following letters — both from distinguished Accidental Old Maids — and addressed to two young maidens, who had no desire that any accident should intervene which might devote them to what they most erroneously denominated ‘joyless celibacy.’ — These letters are in themselves curious ‘confessiones amantium.’

   1835, Old Maids; Their Varieties, Characters, and Conditions, page 91