meaning of confess
1. To make acknowledgment or avowal in a matter pertaining to ones self; to acknowledge, own, or admit, as a crime, a fault, a debt.
2. To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
3. To admit as true; to assent to; to acknowledge, as after a previous doubt, denial, or concealment.
4. To make known or acknowledge, as ones sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.
5. To hear or receive such confession; -- said of a priest.
6. To disclose or reveal, as an effect discloses its cause; to prove; to attest.
7. To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience.
8. To acknowledge; to admit; to concede.
9. admit, make a clean breast of; "She confessed that she had taken the
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Related Words
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