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

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

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

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

Confess :: Confess (v. t.) To hear or receive such confession; -- said of a priest.

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) An office of the papal court which examines cases of conscience, confession, absolution from vows, etc., and delivers decisions, dispensations, etc. Its chief is a cardinal, called the Grand Penitentiary, appointed by the pope..

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. t.) To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

Torture :: Torture (n.) Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel..

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