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Confession
CONFES'SION, n.
1. The acknowledgment of a crime, fault or something to one's disadvantage; open declaration of guilt, failure, debt, accusation, etc.
With the mouth confession is made to salvation. Rom 10.
2. Avowal; the act of acknowledging; profession.
Who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession. 1 Tim 6.
3. The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest; the disburdening of the conscience privately to a confessor; sometimes called auricular confession.
4. A formulary in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission into a church.
5. The acknowledgment of a debt by a debtor before a justice of the peace, etc., on which judgment is entered and execution issued.
confession appears in definitions for these words:
Acknowledgment Approvement Athanasian Attaint Augustan Auricular Cognizance Concession Confess Confessary Confessedly Confession Confessional Confessionary Confessor Convict Conviction Criminal Extort Freeness Guilt Honest Ingenuous Ingenuousness Judgment Measure Peccavi Penitentiary Pray Prayer Rack Self-conviction Shrift Shrive Shriving Shrove-tide Shrove-tuesday Signify Submission Submissiveness Tell Torture Ule Worship Wrest Yet
Acknowledgment Approvement Athanasian Attaint Augustan Auricular Cognizance Concession Confess Confessary Confessedly Confession Confessional Confessionary Confessor Convict Conviction Criminal Extort Freeness Guilt Honest Ingenuous Ingenuousness Judgment Measure Peccavi Penitentiary Pray Prayer Rack Self-conviction Shrift Shrive Shriving Shrove-tide Shrove-tuesday Signify Submission Submissiveness Tell Torture Ule Worship Wrest Yet
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