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Shrive :: Shrive (v. i.) To receive confessions, as a priest; to administer confession and absolution..

Squeak :: Squeak (v. i.) To break silence or secrecy for fear of pain or punishment; to speak; to confess.

Cognizance :: Cognizance (n.) An acknowledgment of a fine of lands and tenements or confession of a thing done.

Confitent :: Confitent (n.) One who confesses his sins and faults.

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

Confiteor :: Confiteor (n.) A form of prayer in which public confession of sins is made.

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

Confessant :: Confessant (n.) One who confesses to a priest.

Confessorship :: Confessorship (n.) The act or state of suffering persecution for religious faith.

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

Approver :: Approver (n.) One who confesses a crime and accuses another. See 1st Approvement, 2..

Confession :: Confession (n.) Acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one's self; the admission of a debt, obligation, or crime..

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

Confessional :: Confessional (n.) The recess, seat, or inclosed place, where a priest sits to hear confessions; often a small structure furnished with a seat for the priest and with a window or aperture so that the penitent who is outside may whisper into the priest's ear without being seen by him or heard by others..

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

Shrift :: Shrift (n.) Confession made to a priest, and the absolution consequent upon it..

Probator :: Probator (n.) One who, when indicted for crime, confessed it, and accused others, his accomplices, in order to obtain pardon; a state's evidence..

Confessor :: Confessor (n.) A priest who hears the confessions of others and is authorized to grant them absolution.

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

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

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