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

Profess :: Profess (v. t.) To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely..

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

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

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

Formula :: Formula (n.) A written confession of faith; a formal statement of foctrines.

Auricular :: Auricular (a.) Told in the ear, i. e., told privately; as, auricular confession to the priest..

Denial :: Denial (n.) A refusal to acknowledge; disclaimer of connection with; disavowal; -- the contrary of confession; as, the denial of a fault charged on one; a denial of God..

Acknowledgment :: Acknowledgment (n.) The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession.

Confessing :: Confessing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Confes.

Confessed :: Confessed (imp. & p. p.) of Confes.

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..

Confess :: Confess (v. t.) 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..

Confessionalist :: Confessionalist (n.) A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession..

Approvement :: Approvement (n.) a confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon. The term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now known as turning king's (or queen's) evidence in England, and state's evidence in the United States..

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

Hide :: Hide (v. t.) To withhold from knowledge; to keep secret; to refrain from avowing or confessing.

Confession :: Confession (n.) Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.

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

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

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