CONFESS
\kənfˈɛs], \kənfˈɛs], \k_ə_n_f_ˈɛ_s]\
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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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