confession

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Related terms 1.3.3 Translations 2 French 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Noun

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From Latin cōnfessiō (“‘confession, acknowledgment, creed or avowal of one's faith’”).

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confession (plural confessions)

1. The open admittance of having done something (especially of something bad).

   Without the real murderer's confession, an innocent person will go to jail.

2. (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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• confessional
• nonconfession

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• confess

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[edit] Etymology

From Latin cōnfessiō (“‘confession, acknowledgment, creed or avowal of one's faith’”).

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confession f. (plural confessions)

1. confession (admittance of having done something, good, bad or neutral)
2. confession (disclosure of one's sins to a priest)
3. creed (a declaration of one's religious faith)