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adv
As if an offence had been confessed or admitted.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: law
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Borrowed from Latin prō cōnfessō (“as, instead of it being confessed”).
