Definitions for confess
kənˈfɛscon·fess

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. confess, squeal, fink(verb)

   confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure

2. concede, profess, confess(verb)

   admit (to a wrongdoing)

   "She confessed that she had taken the money"

3. confess(verb)

   confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith

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1. confess(Verb)

   To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed

   Etymology: From confessen, from confesser, from confesser, from confessāre, a derivative of confessus ( confes), past participle of confitērī "to confess, admit" from con- + fateri. Displaced andetten "to confess, admit" (from andettan).

2. confess(Verb)

   To disclose or reveal

   People confess to anything under torture.

   Etymology: From confessen, from confesser, from confesser, from confessāre, a derivative of confessus ( confes), past participle of confitērī "to confess, admit" from con- + fateri. Displaced andetten "to confess, admit" (from andettan).

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Confess(verb)

   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

2. Confess(verb)

   to acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in

3. Confess(verb)

   to admit as true; to assent to; to acknowledge, as after a previous doubt, denial, or concealment

4. Confess(verb)

   to make known or acknowledge, as one's sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun

5. Confess(verb)

   to hear or receive such confession; -- said of a priest

6. Confess(verb)

   to disclose or reveal, as an effect discloses its cause; to prove; to attest

7. Confess(verb)

   to make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience

8. Confess(verb)

   to acknowledge; to admit; to concede

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1. Confess

   "Confess" is a popular song written by Bennie Benjamin and George David Weiss. The song figures in the early careers of two important female singers: ⁕In 1947, Doris Day was making a transition from a Big band singer, most recently with Les Brown, to a solo vocalist. Her first major record away from the band was a duet with Buddy Clark, with this song on one side and "Love Somebody" on the other. The record became a two-sided hit, the first two of a string of hits for Day that made her one of the top female singers in popular music. ⁕About the same time, Mercury Records was planning to record the song as a vehicle for Frankie Laine. They were persuaded instead to give the song to a young female singer, who had not, at the time, a single hit: Patti Page. Page's manager, Jack Rael, succeeded in getting Mercury to let her record the song, but because of a low budget, a second singer could not be hired, so Rael suggested that Page sing the second part as well. The novelty of her doing two voices on one record probably contributed to the song becoming a top 20 hit for her. This became not only the first of many hits for Patti Page, but the first song on which a singer did more than one track. For Patti Page, multi-tracking became a trademark of her style, while others, such as Les Paul and Mary Ford, as well as Jane Turzy, took up this practice too.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Confess

   kon-fes′, v.t. to acknowledge fully, esp. something wrong: to own or admit: to make known, as sins to a priest: to hear a confession, as a priest.—v.i. to make confession.—ns. Confes′sion, acknowledgment of a crime or fault: avowal; a statement of one's religious belief: acknowledgment of sin to a priest; Confes′sional, the seat or enclosed recess where a priest hears confessions.—adj. pertaining to confession.—ns. Confes′sionalism; Confes′sionalist.—adj. Confes′sionary, of or belonging to confession.—n. a confessional.—ns. Confess′or, one who professes the Christian faith, or a priest who hears confessions and grants absolution: one who endures persecution but not death:—fem. Confess′oress; Confess′orship.—adjs. Confessed′, Confest′, admitted: avowed: evident.—advs. Confess′edly, Confest′ly.—Confession of Faith, a formulary embodying the religious beliefs of a church or sect: a creed.—Confess to, to admit, acknowledge; Stand confessed, to be revealed. [Fr. confesser—L. confitēri, confessus—con, sig. completeness, and fatēri—fāri, to speak.]

British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'confess' in Verbs Frequency: #821

How to pronounce confess?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of confess in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of confess in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of confess in a Sentence

1. Daniel Webster:

   I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe ... Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. -- From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy.

2. Marzieh Amiri:

   They should have held a public trial, i am not angry with the government or the Supreme Leader (of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei). I am angry with extremist security forces who were on his case, trying to prove he was a spy and who maybe forced him to confess to things he hadn't done.

3. Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

   We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

4. Saint Jerome:

   The face is the mirror of the mind and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. -St. Jerome

5. Anthony Ghosn:

   Every day when he wakes up in the detention center, he can tell the prosecutor that he challenges the accusations against him, or on the contrary, he can confess and be released, for seven weeks, his decision has been quite clear. ... He will not give up.

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