What does confession mean?
Definitions for confession
kənˈfɛʃ əncon·fes·sion
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Princeton's WordNet
confessionnoun
an admission of misdeeds or faults
confessionnoun
a written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party
confessionnoun
(Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution
confessionnoun
a public declaration of your faith
confessionnoun
the document that spells out the belief system of a given church (especially the Reformation churches of the 16th century)
Wiktionary
confessionnoun
The open admittance of having done something (especially of something bad).
Without the real murderer's confession, an innocent person will go to jail.
confessionnoun
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.
Etymology: From confessio.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Confessionnoun
Etymology: from confess.
Your engaging me first in this adventure of the Moxa, and desiring the story of it from me, is like giving one the torture, and then asking his confession, which is hard usage. William Temple.
You will have little opportunity to practise such a confession, and should therefore supply the want of it by a due performance of it to God. William Wake, Preparation for Death.
Who, before Pontius Pilate, witnessed a good confession? 1 Tim. vi. 13.
If there be one amongst the fair’st of Greece,
That loves his mistress more than in confession,
And dare avow her beauty and her worth,
In other arms than her’s; to him this challenge. William Shakespeare.
Webster Dictionary
Confessionnoun
acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one's self; the admission of a debt, obligation, or crime
Confessionnoun
acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith
Confessionnoun
the act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution
Confessionnoun
a formulary in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to membership of a church; a confession of faith
Confessionnoun
an admission by a party to whom an act is imputed, in relation to such act. A judicial confession settles the issue to which it applies; an extrajudical confession may be explained or rebutted
Etymology: [F. confession, L. confessio.]
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Confession
Confession is the acknowledgment of sin or wrongs. It is a religious practice in a number of faith traditions.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of confession in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of confession in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of confession in a Sentence
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
It's a confession that the coronavirus [ is ] impacting personal computers, it's a negative but not a gamechanger for Microsoft. It will have a ripple impact across the supply chain [ and ] fans the flames on coronavirus worries. Apple and Microsoft have now confirmed the negative impact Wall Street had feared.
Presumably, trying to get a confession out of at least one of them is a goal.
I fear he may be tortured to extract a confession.
It was the hardest thing I've done in my life, what I wanted was to hear a confession, but I saw them feel no remorse.
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Translations for confession
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- اعتراف, إقرارArabic
- признание, изповедBulgarian
- zpověď, přiznání, vyznáníCzech
- Beichte, Eingeständnis, Geständnis, BekenntnisGerman
- ομολογίαGreek
- konfesoEsperanto
- confesiónSpanish
- tunnustus, synnintunnustus, rippiFinnish
- confessionFrench
- bychtWestern Frisian
- èisteachdScottish Gaelic
- feyshtynManx
- וידויHebrew
- स्वीकारोक्तिHindi
- vallomásHungarian
- confessioneItalian
- וידויHebrew
- 白状, 告白, 懺悔, 自白, 告解, 自供Japanese
- whākingaMāori
- pengakuan dosaMalay
- biecht, bekentenisDutch
- tilståelseNorwegian
- spowiedź, wyznaniePolish
- confissãoPortuguese
- recunoaștere, mărturisire, spovedire, confesiuneRomanian
- признание, исповедьRussian
- исповед, исповестSerbo-Croatian
- bikt, bekännelse, medgivande, erkännandeSwedish
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