- go to confession
- the Augsburg Confession of the Lutheran Church
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.
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14th century
acknowledgment (or acknowledgement), admission, avowal, concession;
denial, disallowance, disclaimer, recantation, rejection, renouncement, repudiation;
self-accusation, self-betrayal, self-revelation;
self-incrimination, self-recrimination, self-reproach;
affirmation, assertion, avouchment, claim, confirmation, declaration, insistence, profession;
betrayal, disclosure, divulgence, giveaway, revelation;
announcement, declaration, proclamation, pronouncement;
contriteness, contrition, penitence, regret, remorse, remorsefulness, repentance, rue;
: a written or spoken statement in which you say that you have done something wrong or committed a crime
: the act of telling people something that makes you embarrassed, ashamed, etc.
: the act of telling your sins to God or to a priest
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