The corpus record — Latin

diffiteor

to disavow, to deny

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Where it lives

Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 1 · 0.44/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

dif-fĭtĕor — Lewis & Short

dif-fĭtĕor, ēri,

I v. dep. a. [fateor], to disavow, to deny (very rare; perh. only in the foll. passages—for syn. v. denego init.): numquam diffitebor multa me simulasse invitum, Planc. in Cic. Fam. 10, 8, 4; so with acc. and inf., Quint. 2, 17, 5: obscenum opus, Ov. Am. 3, 14, 28; Aus. Caes. 14.

Where it came from

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