English

Verb

unbosom ‎(third-person singular simple present unbosoms, present participle unbosoming, simple past and past participle unbosomed)

1. (archaic) To tell someone about one's troubles, and thus obtain relief.
   • 1594, Shakespeare, Willam, Love's Labour's Lost, act V, scene 2, line 2040:

     Their several counsels they unbosom shall
     To loves mistook, and so be mock'd withal
     Upon the next occasion that we meet,
     With visages displayed, to talk and greet.

   • 1953, Beckett, Samuel, Watt, Paris: Olympia Press, OL 16635912M:

     Watt was not the first to whom Mr Graves had unbosomed himself, in this connexion. For he had unbosomed himself to Arsene, many years before...

2. (archaic) To confess a misdeed.

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