confession
con·fes·sion
noun \kən-ˈfe-shən\Definition of CONFESSION
1
a : an act of confessing; especially : a disclosure of one's sins in the sacrament of reconciliation b : a session for the confessing of sins <go to confession>
2
3
: an organized religious body having a common creed
Examples of CONFESSION
- She went to the police station and made a full confession.
- I have a confession to make: I have never done this before.
- The priest will hear confessions after mass today.
- I haven't gone to confession in three years.
First Known Use of CONFESSION
14th century
Related to CONFESSION
Antonyms: disavowal, nonadmission
Related Words: self-accusation, self-betrayal, self-revelation; self-incrimination, self-recrimination, self-reproach; affirmation, assertion, avouchment, claim, confirmation, declaration, insistence, profession; allowance; apology, hand-wringing; betrayal, disclosure, divulgence, giveaway, revelation; announcement, declaration, proclamation, pronouncement; blame, fault, responsibility; contriteness, contrition, penitence, regret, remorse, remorsefulness, repentance, rue
Rhymes with CONFESSION
accession, aggression, bull session, compression, concession, depression, digression, discretion, egression, expression, impression, ingression, jam session, obsession, oppression, precession, procession, profession, progression, recession, refreshen, regression, repression, secession, skull session, succession, suppression, transgression
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