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To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.

To admit as true; to assent to; to acknowledge, as after a previous doubt, denial, or concealment.

To make known or acknowledge, as one's sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.

To hear or receive such confession; -- said of a priest.

To disclose or reveal, as an effect discloses its cause; to prove; to attest.

To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience.

To acknowledge; to admit; to concede.

Disclose the state of one's conscience to a priest; of a priest, to hear a confession; to make an acknowledgment; with to.

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.

To make confession.

To acknowledge; to own; to make known; to hear a confession.

To acknowledge; own; admit, as a fault or error.

To avow.

To disclose; reveal.

To make acknowledgment.

To acknowledge or own a crime; to acknowledge sins; to hear the confession of; to admit.

To make confession; to disclose faults.

To admit or own; to acknowledge, as a crime or fault; to disclose or avow; to admit or assent to as true; to hear the confession of another, as a Roman Catholic priest does.