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Guru :: Guru (n.) A spiritual teacher, guide, or confessor amoung the Hindoos..

Symbolism :: Symbolics (n.) that branch of historic theology which treats of creeds and confessions of faith; symbolism; -- called also symbolic.

Confess :: Confess (v. t.) To make known or acknowledge, as one's sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun..

Confess :: Confess (v. i.) To acknowledge; to admit; to concede.

Confess :: Confess (v. t.) To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.

Render :: Render (v. i.) To give an account; to make explanation or confession.

Avouch :: Avouch (v. t.) To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction.

Own :: Own (v. t.) To grant; to acknowledge; to admit to be true; to confess; to recognize in a particular character; as, we own that we have forfeited your love..

Penitential :: Penitential (n.) A book formerly used by priests hearing confessions, containing rules for the imposition of penances; -- called also penitential book..

Blushingly :: Blushingly (adv.) In a blushing manner; with a blush or blushes; as, to answer or confess blushingly..

Unbosom :: Unbosom (v. t.) To disclose freely; to reveal in confidence, as secrets; to confess; -- often used reflexively; as, to unbosom one's self..

Honest :: Honest (a.) Characterized by integrity or fairness and straight/forwardness in conduct, thought, speech, etc.; upright; just; equitable; trustworthy; truthful; sincere; free from fraud, guile, or duplicity; not false; -- said of persons and acts, and of things to which a moral quality is imputed; as, an honest judge or merchant; an honest statement; an honest bargain; an honest business; an honest book; an honest confession..

Recognition :: Recognition (n.) The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice..

Confessionist :: Confessionist (n.) One professing a certain faith.

Confessionalism :: Confessionalism (n.) An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith.

Shrive :: Shrive (v. t.) To hear or receive the confession of; to administer confession and absolution to; -- said of a priest as the agent.

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) A small building in a monastery where penitents confessed.

Acknow :: Acknow (v. t.) To acknowledge; to confess.

Confess :: Confess (v. i.) To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience..

Admission :: Admission (n.) Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry..

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