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Definition of Confess

Confess To make acknowledgment or avowal in a matter pertaining to one's self; to acknowledge, own, or admit, as a crime, a fault, a debt. To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in. To admit as true; to assent to; to acknowledge, as after a previous doubt, denial, or concealment. To make known or acknowledge, as one's sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun. To hear or receive such confession; -- said of a priest. To disclose or reveal, as an effect discloses its cause; to prove; to attest. To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience. To acknowledge; to admit; to concede. Related Definitions: Absolution, Acknowledge, Acknowledgment, Admit, After, An, As, Assent, Attest, Avowal, Belief, By, Cause, Concealment, Concede, Confession, Conscience, Crime, Debt, Denial, Disclose, Doubt, Effect, Faith, Fault, Followed, Hear, In, Known, Make, Matter, Of, One, Or, Order, Own, Pertaining, Previous, Priest, Profess, Pronoun, Prove, Receive, Reflexive, Reveal, Said, Self, Sometimes, State, Such, The, To, True

Confess Quotations We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. Francois de La Rochefoucauld We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones. Francois de La Rochefoucauld I must confess, I was born at a very early age. Groucho Marx I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps. Mohandas Gandhi In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet. Winston Churchill

Confess Translations confess in Afrikaans is bieg confess in Danish is bekende confess in Dutch is biechten, toegeven, bekennen, erkennen confess in French is avouer, confessez, confessent, confesser confess in German is beichten, bekennen, zugeben confess in Italian is confessare, confessarsi confess in Spanish is confesar

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