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

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

Extort :: Extort (v. t.) To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt..

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

Confessionary :: Confessionary (n.) A confessional.

Confessorship :: Confessorship (n.) The act or state of suffering persecution for religious faith.

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.

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

Confess :: Confess (v. t.) To admit as true; to assent to; to acknowledge, as after a previous doubt, denial, or concealment..

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

Penitent :: Penitent (n.) One under the direction of a confessor.

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

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

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

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