Confession
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noun
(1) (Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution
(2) A written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party
(3) A document that spells out the belief system of a given church (especially the Reformation churches of the 16th century)
(4) A public declaration of your faith
(5) An admission of misdeeds or faults
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Etymology
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Noun
- The open admittance of having done something (especially of something bad).
- Without the real murderer's confession, an innocent person will go to jail.
- 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.
- (First Folio ed.)
- Hauing diſpleaſ'd my Father, to Lawrence Cell, / To make confeſſion, and to be abſolu'd.