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

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

Shriving :: Shriving (n.) Shrift; confession.

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

Confessionalism :: Confessionalism (n.) An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith.

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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

Ghostly :: Ghostly (a.) Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor..

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

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

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

Confessional :: Confessional (a.) Pertaining to a confession of faith.

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

Submission :: Submission (n.) Acknowledgement of a fault; confession of error.

Jubilee :: "Jubilee (n.) A church solemnity or ceremony celebrated at Rome, at stated intervals, originally of one hundred years, but latterly of twenty-five; a plenary and extraordinary indulgence grated by the sovereign pontiff to the universal church. One invariable condition of granting this indulgence is the confession of sins and receiving of the eucharist..

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..

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