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Boot :: Boot (n.) An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland..

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

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..

Confessedly :: Confessedly (adv.) By confession; without denial.

Confess :: Confess (v. t.) To disclose or reveal, as an effect discloses its cause; to prove; to attest..

Criminal :: Criminal (n.) One who has commited a crime; especially, one who is found guilty by verdict, confession, or proof; a malefactor; a felon..

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

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

Prayer :: Prayer (v. i.) The act of addressing supplication to a divinity, especially to the true God; the offering of adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving to the Supreme Being; as, public prayer; secret prayer..

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

Shriver :: Shriver (n.) One who shrives; a confessor.

Shriving :: Shriving (n.) Shrift; confession.

Avoid :: Avoid (a.) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter..

Penitencer :: Penitencer (n.) A priest who heard confession and enjoined penance in extraordinary cases.

Admittedly :: Admittedly (adv.) Confessedly.

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

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

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

Acknowledgedly :: Acknowledgedly (adv.) Confessedly.

Ingenuous :: Ingenuous (a.) Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; as, an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration, confession, etc..

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