CONFESSION
Confession
For the evangelical Protestant movement, see Confessing Movement. For statements of faith, see Confession of faith. For other uses, see Confess and Confession .The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Confession (religion)
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confession
Noun
- The open admittance of having done something (especially of something bad).
- Without the real murderer's confession, an innocent person will go to jail.
- the disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution. Now termed the sacrament of reconciliation.
- I went to confession and now I feel much better about what I had done.
- Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.
- A formula in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to membership of a church; a confession of faith.
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