Confess(v. i.) To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience.
Confess(v. i.) To acknowledge; to admit; to concede.
Confess(v. t.) To make acknowledgment or avowal in a matter pertaining to one's self; to acknowledge, own, or admit, as a crime, a fault, a debt.
Confess(v. t.) To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
Confess(v. t.) To admit as true; to assent to; to acknowledge, as after a previous doubt, denial, or concealment.
Confess(v. t.) To make known or acknowledge, as one's sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.
Confess(v. t.) To hear or receive such confession; -- said of a priest.
Confess(v. t.) To disclose or reveal, as an effect discloses its cause; to prove; to attest.
Confessant(n.) One who confesses to a priest.
Confessed(imp. & p. p.) of Confess
Confessedly(adv.) By confession; without denial.
Confesser(n.) One who makes a confession.
Confessing(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Confess
Confession(n.) Acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one's self; the admission of a debt, obligation, or crime.
Confession(n.) Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.
Confession(n.) The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution.
Confession(n.) A formulary in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to membership of a church; a confession of faith.
Confession(n.) An admission by a party to whom an act is imputed, in relation to such act. A judicial confession settles the issue to which it applies; an extrajudical confession may be explained or rebutted.
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