confession
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From Latin cōnfessiō (“confession, acknowledgment, creed or avowal of one's faith”).
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Wikipedia confession (plural confessions)
- The open admittance of having done something (especially of something bad).
- Without the real murderer's confession, an innocent person will go to jail.
- (Roman Catholicism) the disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution. Now termed the sacrament of reconciliation.
- I went to confession and now I feel much better about what I had done.
- 1597, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Act III (First Folio ed.)
- Hauing diſpleaſ'd my Father, to Lawrence Cell, / To make confeſſion, and to be abſolu'd.
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Open admittance of having done something
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Disclosure of one's sins to a priest
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From Latin cōnfessiō (“confession, acknowledgment, creed or avowal of one's faith”).
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confession f. (plural confessions)
- confession (admittance of having done something, good, bad or neutral)
- confession (the disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution)
- creed (a declaration of one's religious faith)
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Old French confession
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confession (plural confessions)
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From Latin
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confession f. (oblique plural confessions, nominative singular confession, nominative plural confessions)
- confession (the disclosure of one's sins to a clergyman for absolution)
