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confess
[ kuhn-fes ]
verb (used with object)
- to acknowledge or avow (a fault, crime, misdeed, weakness, etc.) by way of revelation.
Antonyms: conceal
- to own or admit as true:
I must confess that I haven't read the book.
Antonyms: deny
- to declare or acknowledge (one's sins), especially to God or a priest in order to obtain absolution.
- (of a priest) to hear the confession of (a person).
- to acknowledge one's belief or faith in; declare adherence to.
- to reveal by circumstances.
verb (used without object)
- to make confession plead guilty; own:
to confess to a crime.
- to make confession of sins, especially to a priest.
- (of a priest) to hear confession.
confess
/ kənˈfɛs /
verb
- whenintr, often foll by to to make an acknowledgment or admission (of faults, misdeeds, crimes, etc)
- tr to admit or grant to be true; concede
- Christianity RC Church to declare (one's sins) to God or to a priest as his representative, so as to obtain pardon and absolution
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Derived Forms
- conˈfessable, adjective
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Other Words From
- con·fessa·ble adjective
- con·fessingly adverb
- half-con·fessed adjective
- precon·fess verb (used with object)
- uncon·fessed adjective
- uncon·fessing adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of confess1
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Example Sentences
I have to confess, I had no idea that Whitney had a rumored gay lover before reading about your role in this movie.
And, again, I now confess, I had an occasional Bourbon and stoogie on the cuff.
I will now confess that I spent some time in the lobby of the Willard Hotel myself.
Spitz “persuaded Schwend that his best chance would be to confess his activities with the RSHA and to cooperate with us.”
During their incarceration, they were humiliated and forced to confess on national television.
When the father had finished, he stabbed his wife, telling her to repent of her sins and to confess to God who would pardon her.
Pride forbade him to confess himself a homeless, penniless vagabond.
If I were a vain man I should confess that they rather gave themselves away.
And yet the demand has the clearest and strongest basis of natural and eternal justice, as any fair mind must confess.
At last even Massna had to confess himself beaten and fall back on Santarem.
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