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noun

Confession n.

1.

Acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one's self; the admission of a debt, obligation, or crime. "With a crafty madness keeps aloof, When we would bring him on to some confession Of his true state."

2.

Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith. "With the mouth confession is made unto salvation."

3.

(Eccl.) The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution. "Auricular confession... or the private and special confession of sins to a priest for the purpose of obtaining his absolution."

4.

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.

5.

(Law) 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.

Confession and avoidance (Law), a mode of pleading in which the party confesses the facts as stated by his adversary, but alleges some new matter by way of avoiding the legal effect claimed for them.

Confession of faith, a formulary containing the articles of faith; a creed.

General confession, the confession of sins made by a number of persons in common, as in public prayer.

Westminster Confession. See Westminster Assembly, under Assembly.

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"Confession" Quotes from Famous Books

... even at his disposal. We often hear people laud the beautiful submission and the self-sacrifice of this nameless maiden. To me it is pitiful and painful. I would that this page of history were gilded with a dignified whole-souled rebellion. I would have had daughter receive the father's confession with a stern rebuke, saying: "I will not consent to such a sacrifice. Your vow must be disallowed. You may sacrifice your own life as you please, but you have no right over mine. I am on the threshold of life, the joys of youth ...

— The Woman's Bible. • Elizabeth Cady Stanton

... had left you," she went on, "I regretted something I had said. I have to make a confession—I must make it!" she whispered, brokenly, the instinct to indulge in warmth of sentiment which had led this woman of passions to respond to Fitzpiers in the first place leading her now to find luxurious comfort in opening her heart to his wife. "I said ...

— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy

... the Sherif seeing their presumptious Impenitence, caused them to be Executed with all the Expedition possible; even while they were Cursing and raving, and as they liv'd the Devils true Factors, so they resolutely Dyed in his Service': the rest of the Coven also died 'without any confession or contrition'.[26] ...

— The Witch-cult in Western Europe - A Study in Anthropology • Margaret Alice Murray

... answered, 'I am a Knight that fain would be counselled in the quest of the Graal, for he shall have much earthly worship that brings it to an end.' 'That is true,' said the good man, 'for he will be the best Knight in the world, but know well that there shall none attain it but by holiness and by confession of sin.' So they rode together till they came to the hermitage, and the good man led Sir Bors into the chapel, where he made confession of his sins, and they ate bread and drank water together. 'Now,' said the hermit, 'I pray you that you eat none ...

— The Book of Romance • Various

... been able to endure him since he tore up the Wheel of Fortune. I don't go to confession to him ...

— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal

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