0 admitting to having a characteristic that is considered to be bad or not acceptable:
What the book lacks in theoretical sophistication is more than made up for by its author's self-confessed empiricism.
For the self-confessed fundamentalist, to be thus called is proudly taken as a recognition that someone has stuck rigidly to the fundamental tenets of their faith.
Grammarians would seem to be caught in the middle, but their responses to the naming struggle are difficult to chart because it is rare nowadays to find a self-confessed grammarian.
Why cannot the unconvicted prisoners go into the open prisons and let the self-confessed convicted criminals go into the closed prisons?
Their lawlessness is self-confessed, as is their anarchy.
It is their self-confessed ambition to do away with it.
I am referring to the self-confessed defect within the pages of the document namely, that it is not a plan.
With regard to his confusion or self-confessed inability to understand the third paragraph on page 101, he is not by himself.