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Definitioner
Verb
- To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.
- To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
- (religion) To unburden (oneself) of sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution.
- (religion) To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.
- To disclose or reveal.
Exempel
- People confess to anything under torture.
- I never gave it him. Send for him hither, / And let him confess a truth.
- And there confess / Humbly our faults, and pardon beg.
- I must confess I was most pleased with a beautiful prospect that none of them have mentioned.
- Whosoever, therefore, shall confess me before men, him will I confess, also, before my Father which is in heaven.
- For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.
- Our beautiful votary took an opportunity of confessing herself to this celebrated father.
- He [...] heard mass, and the prince, his son, with him, and the most part of his company were confessed.
- Tall thriving trees confessed the fruitful mould.
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