confession
English
Etymology
From Old French confession, from Latin cōnfessiō (“confession, acknowledgment, creed or avowal of one's faith”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kənˈfɛʃən/
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Noun
confession (countable and uncountable, plural confessions)
- The open admittance of having done something (especially something bad).
- Without the real murderer's confession, an innocent person will go to jail.
- Shakespeare
- With a crafty madness keeps aloof, / When we would bring him on to some confession / Of his true state.
- A formal document providing such an admission.
- He forced me to sign a confession!
- (Christianity) The disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution. In the Roman Catholic Church, it is now termed the sacrament of reconciliation.
- I went to confession and now I feel much better about what I had done.
- c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:(First Folio ed.)
- Hauing diſpleaſ'd my Father, to Lawrence Cell, / To make confeſſion, and to be abſolu'd.
- Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.
- Bible, Rom. x. 10
- With the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
- Bible, Rom. x. 10
- 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.
Derived terms
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Translations
open admittance
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document
disclosure of one's sins to a priest
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acknowledgment of belief
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formula
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.fɛ.sjɔ̃/
Audio (file)
Noun
confession f (plural confessions)
- confession (admittance of having done something, good, bad or neutral)
- confession (the disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution)
- creed (a declaration of one's religious faith)
Further reading
- “confession” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Etymology
From Latin
Noun
confession f (oblique plural confessions, nominative singular confession, nominative plural confessions)
- confession (the disclosure of one's sins to a clergyman for absolution)
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