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Earshrift :: Earshrift (n.) A nickname for auricular confession; shrift.

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

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

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

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

Confession :: Confession (n.) An admission by a party to whom an act is imputed, in relation to such act. A judicial confession settles the issue to which it applies; an extrajudical confession may be explained or rebutted..

Confessionary :: Confessionary (a.) Pertaining to auricular confession; as, a confessionary litany..

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

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..

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

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

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

Curtana :: Curtana (n.) The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; -- also called the sword of Edward the Confessor..

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

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

Confessionary :: Confessionary (n.) A confessional.

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..

Confesser :: Confesser (n.) One who makes a confession.

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

Acknowledgedly :: Acknowledgedly (adv.) Confessedly.

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