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con·fes·sion

(kən-fĕsh′ən)

1. The act or process of confessing, as in telling one's life story as a series of failings or tribulations.

2. Something confessed, especially a disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution.

3. Confession In some Christian churches, the sacrament of Penance.

4. A statement made acknowledging guilt of an offense.

5. An avowal of belief in the doctrines of a particular faith; a creed.

6. A church or group of worshipers adhering to a specific creed.

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confession

(kənˈfɛʃən)

1. the act of confessing

2. something confessed

3. an acknowledgment or declaration, esp of one's faults, misdeeds, or crimes

4. (Ecclesiastical Terms) Christianity chiefly RC Church the act of a penitent accusing himself or herself of his or her sins

5. (Ecclesiastical Terms) confession of faith a formal public avowal of religious beliefs

6. (Ecclesiastical Terms) a religious denomination or sect united by a common system of beliefs

conˈfessionary adj

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

con•fes•sion

(kənˈfɛʃ ən)

n.

1. acknowledgment; avowal; admission.

2. acknowledgment or disclosure of sin, esp. to a priest to obtain absolution.

3. something that is confessed.

4. a formal, usu. written acknowledgment of guilt by a person accused of a crime.

5. a formal profession of religious belief.

6. an organized religious group sharing the same beliefs and doctrines.

[1350–1400; Middle English (< Anglo-French) < Latin]

Confession

a religious group; a body or church united by a particular confession of faith. See also communion, congregation.

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Noun	1.	confession - an admission of misdeeds or faults admission - an acknowledgment of the truth of something self-accusation, self-condemnation - an admission that you have failed to do or be something you know you should do or be
	2.	confession - a written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party document, papers, written document - writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)
	3.	confession - (Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution penance - a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution shrift - the act of being shriven Church of Rome, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Western Church, Roman Catholic - the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy
	4.	confession - a public declaration of your faith declaration - a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written)
	5.	confession - the document that spells out the belief system of a given church (especially the Reformation churches of the 16th century) church doctrine, religious doctrine, creed, gospel - the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group

confession

noun admission, revelation, disclosure, acknowledgment, avowal, divulgence, exposure, unbosoming His confession was extracted under duress

Proverbs
"Confession is good for the soul"

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

confession

noun

1. The act of admitting to something:

acknowledgment, admission, avowal.

2. A system of religious belief:

creed, denomination, faith, persuasion, religion, sect.

Translations

إعْتِراف للكاهِنإِقْراراعْتِراف، إِقْرار

přiznánízpověďdoznání

tilståelseskrifte

Geständnis Beichte

ομολογία εξομολόγηση

confesión

tunnustus

confession aveu religion

priznanje

gyónásvallomás

játningskriftir, skriftamál

confessione

自白

고백

bekentenis

tilståelse bekjennelse skriftemål

wyznanie

confissão

исповедь признание сознание

spoveď

priznanje

bekännelse

คำสารภาพ

itirafgünah çıkarma

sự thú nhận

供认忏悔招供

confession

[kənˈfeʃən] N

1. (= act, document) → confesión f
to make a confession → confesar, hacer una confesión
to make a full confession → confesarlo todo, confesar de plano

2. (Rel) to go to confession → confesarse
to hear sb's confession → confesar a algn
confession of faith → profesión f de fe

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

confession

[kənˈfɛʃ^ən] n

[crime, murder] → aveu m

(RELIGION) → confession f
to go to confession → aller se confesser
to make a confession → faire une confession

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

confession

(= admission) → Eingeständnis nt; (of guilt, crime etc) → Geständnis nt; on his own confession → laut eigener Aussage; to make a full confession of something to somebody (Jur also) → jdm ein volles Geständnis einer Sache (gen) → ablegen; I have a confession to make → ich muss dir etwas beichten (inf) → or gestehen; (Jur) → ich möchte ein Geständnis ablegen; “confessions of a … ” → „Bekenntnisse eines/einer …“; confession magazine → Zeitschrift f → mit Geschichten, die das Leben schrieb

(Eccl: of sins) → Beichte f, → (Schuld- or Sünden)bekenntnis nt; general confession → allgemeines Sündenbekenntnis; confession of faith → Glaubensbekenntnis nt; to make one’s confession → seine Sünden bekennen; to hear confession → (die) Beichte hören

(= faith) → (Glaubens)bekenntnis nt, → Konfession f; what confession are you? → welche Konfession or Glaubenszugehörigkeit haben Sie?

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

confession

[kənˈfɛʃ/ən] n → confessione f
to go to confession → andare a confessarsi
to make one's confession → confessarsi
to hear sb's confession → ascoltare la confessione di qn

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

confess

(kənˈfes) verb

to make known that one is guilty, wrong etc; to admit. He confessed (to the crime); He confessed that he had broken the vase; It was stupid of me, I confess.

conˈfession (-ʃən) noun

1. acknowledgment of a crime or fault. The youth made a confession to the police officer.

2. (an) act of confessing one's sins to a priest. She went to confession every Friday.

conˈfessional (-ʃə-) noun

the seat etc where a priest sits when hearing confessions.

conˈfessor noun

a priest who hears confessions.

confession

→ إِقْرار přiznání tilståelse Geständnis ομολογία confesión tunnustus confession priznanje confessione 自白 고백 bekentenis tilståelse wyznanie confissão признание bekännelse คำสารภาพ itiraf sự thú nhận 供认

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The confession he had promised was the one painful incident of this time.

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Nothing but the saddest of all confessions that a man can make--the confession of his own folly.

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A little less than a hundred years ago, and a little more than six hundred years after the death, the confession of Pervaise was discovered in the secret archives of the Vatican.

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The longer her confession was delayed, the more cruelly she was injuring the woman whom she had robbed of her identity--the friendless woman who had neither witnesses nor papers to produce, who was powerless to right her own wrong.

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The duteous merciful constancy of his wife had delivered him from one dread, but it could not hinder her presence from being still a tribunal before which he shrank from confession and desired advocacy.

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Gluck's confession, before he went to the electric chair, threw much light upon the series of mysterious events, many apparently unrelated, that so perturbed the world between the years 1933 and 1941.

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"Well, I feel as if transformed--a confession weighs on my mind."

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"Begin by sitting down, and making yourself comfortable, for I am going to begin with a general confession, you will afterwards give me a good absolution, and I shall believe myself more tranquil."

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But when I read that unconscious confession of the murderous conspiracy to which he fell a victim, I remembered, with something like remorse, that the same mother bore us.

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Mrs Partridge was then examined, who, after a modest apology for being obliged to speak the truth against her husband, related all the circumstances with which the reader hath already been acquainted; and at last concluded with her husband's confession of his guilt.

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We were to be fitted for practice in the courts, not only by our reading, but by a season of pettifogging before justices of the peace, which I looked forward to with no small shrinking of my shy spirit; but what really troubled me most, and was always the grain of sand between my teeth, was Blackstone's confession of his own original preference for literature, and his perception that the law was "a jealous mistress," who would suffer no rival in his affections.

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Listen--now comes the true confession. The other was nothing.

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