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Confess :: Confess (v. t.) To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Unbosom :: Unbosom (v. t.) To disclose freely; to reveal in confidence, as secrets; to confess; -- often used reflexively; as, to unbosom one's self..

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

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..

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

Admission :: Admission (n.) Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry..

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

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

Father :: Father (n.) A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc..

Confessionist :: Confessionist (n.) One professing a certain faith.

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

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

Criminal :: Criminal (n.) One who has commited a crime; especially, one who is found guilty by verdict, confession, or proof; a malefactor; a felon..

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