CONFESS
\kənfˈɛs], \kənfˈɛs], \k_ə_n_f_ˈɛ_s]\
Definitions of CONFESS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
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To admit as true; to assent to; to acknowledge, as after a previous doubt, denial, or concealment.
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To make known or acknowledge, as one's sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.
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To hear or receive such confession; -- said of a priest.
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To disclose or reveal, as an effect discloses its cause; to prove; to attest.
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To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience.
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To acknowledge; to admit; to concede.
By Oddity Software
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Disclose the state of one's conscience to a priest; of a priest, to hear a confession; to make an acknowledgment; with to.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To acknowledge fully, especially something wrong: to own or admit: to make known, as sins to a priest: to hear a confession, as a priest.
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To make confession.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To acknowledge; own; admit, as a fault or error.
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To avow.
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To disclose; reveal.
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To make acknowledgment.
By James Champlin Fernald
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To acknowledge or own a crime; to acknowledge sins; to hear the confession of; to admit.
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To make confession; to disclose faults.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
