Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of confess is as below...

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Profess :: Profess (v. i.) To take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess.

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

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..

Confessor :: Confessor (n.) One who confesses; one who acknowledges a fault, or the truth of a charge, at the risk of suffering; specifically, one who confesses himself a follower of Christ and endures persecution for his faith..

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

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

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

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

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

Random Fonts

Most Popular