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confession Definition

con·fes·sion (kən fes̸h′ən)

noun

  1. the act of confessing; acknowledgment; specif.,
    1. an admission of guilt, esp. formally in writing, as by a person charged with a crime
    2. the confessing of sins to a priest in the sacrament of penance
    3. a general acknowledgment of sin, or a form expressing this used in public worship
  2. something confessed
    1. a statement of religious beliefs, esp. as held by a Christian church, usually longer than a creed
    2. a church having such a confession: communion
  4. the tomb or shrine of a martyr or confessor
  5. a story of or as of one's life experiences, revealing faults and confidential personal details

confession Synonyms

confession

n.

  1. The act of confessing

    concession, acknowledgment, admission, allowance, owning to, owning up*, revelation, revealing, disclosure, divulgence, publication, affirmation, assertion, unbosoming, utterance, vent, declaration, telling, relation, avowal, exposure, recitation, narration, exposé, acknowledgment of guilt, avowal of error, admission of guilt, admission of fault, proclamation, making public; see also acknowledgment 1.

    Antonyms concealment, denial*, disclaimer. *

  2. That which has been confessed

    statement, disclosure, profession; see admission 4, declaration 1.

  3. A sacrament

    penance, absolution, contrition, repentance; see penance 2, sacrament.

confession Law Definition

n

An admission that one has committed a crime or any other incriminating statement made by a person.
coerced confession
A confession induced by the police or other law enforcement officers’ use of threats or force.
involuntary confession
  1. A confession induced by the police or other law enforcement officers’ use of coercion, deceit, promises, or psychological pressure.
  2. A confession obtained in violation of the Miranda Rule.
oral confession
See voluntary confession.
voluntary confession
A confession that is not involuntary. Also called an oral confession.

confession Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • sin: General confession of sin is just not good enough.
  • guilt: But even today not everyone has accepted this confession of guilt.
  • faith: During my confession of faith at my baptism I still remember saying I would follow Christ wherever he would lead me.
  • addict: Confessions of a shoe addict Goodbye to Iraq All hail the goddesses View from a broad The chapati's over What's good now?
  • mind: He is currently in pre-production on his feature directorial debut, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.

Preposition: on

dancefloor: She will be singing tunes lifted from her new record Confessions On A Dancefloor released today.

Adjective modifier

  • Helvetic: The Helvetic Confession tells us that the right choosing of ministers is by the consent of the church.
  • sacramental: We find it in avoiding every occasion of sin; in fleeing from temptation; and in quickly returning to God through sacramental confession.
  • Reformed: The contrast with the teaching of Scripture and the Reformed Confessions could not be more apparent.
  • Christological: Yet Luke is usually held to be later than Mark, but it is not concerned to emphasize the Christological confession.
  • startling: See our startling confession | Find all Gothenburg articles 18 June Solidarity with Gothenburg prisoners.
  • disputed: I have done 8 cases in the last 12 months involving disputed confessions.

Converse of object

  • extort: But, meanwhile, God extorted a confession from him, in which he describes his nature to us.
  • extract: Failing to extract a confession of theft, he resorted to occult methods.
  • elicit: What else... oh, how when you randomly pull out a notion in conversation, sometimes it sticks and elicits a confession.
  • hear: Reconciliation Please note there will be no confessions heard at the Sacred Heart Church on Saturday 31st May 2003.
  • sign: Zoom On 9 November Fawkes signed a more detailed confession with the names of others involved in the plot.
  • obtain: The result was then used to obtain a confession from a person who was later charged with a criminal offense.

Noun used with modifier

  • deathbed: More than thirty years later, in May 1988, a mystery man claimed his father had made a deathbed confession to the crime.
  • mouth: For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.