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Confession   /kənfˈɛʃən/   Listen
Confession

noun
1.
An admission of misdeeds or faults.
2.
A written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party.
3.
(Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution.
4.
A public declaration of your faith.
5.
The document that spells out the belief system of a given church (especially the Reformation churches of the 16th century).



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"Confession" Quotes from Famous Books



... to her own astonishment, her endurance came to its end. She had never expected to say what she was now going to say to him. She had never dreamed of confession—of enlightening him. And now, all at once, she knew she was going to do it, and that it was a needless and cruel and insane and useless thing to do, for it led her nowhere, and it would leave him in ...
— The Crimson Tide • Robert W. Chambers
... "Or a confession of failure from Francis ... to let us know that he has done nothing, adding that he is accordingly sulking 'like Achilles ...
— The Man with the Clubfoot • Valentine Williams
... every one either that confesses by the word of mouth that Christ dwells in them that are of God. A Scriptural confession is not by word only, but by the deed, or life. Every one who confesses by their life that Christ is come in the flesh or dwells in them must and will abide in the whole doctrine of Christ, and live just as he lived. Such a one is of God, and is a light even as Christ was ...
— The Gospel Day • Charles Ebert Orr
... the girl made her so-called confession, which the simple mourning she had already worn, without stating for whom, seemed to bear out; and soon the story of the little romance spread through the village and country-side, almost as far as Melchester. It was a curious psychological fact that, having once made the ...
— A Group of Noble Dames • Thomas Hardy
... Christian's neck," he commanded, turning to the executioner, "and hang this man in his place, seeing that by his own confession he is the murderer." ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments • Andrew Lang.


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