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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Formula :: Formula (n.) A written confession of faith; a formal statement of foctrines.

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

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

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

Cognizance :: Cognizance (n.) An acknowledgment of a fine of lands and tenements or confession of a thing done.

Denial :: Denial (n.) A refusal to acknowledge; disclaimer of connection with; disavowal; -- the contrary of confession; as, the denial of a fault charged on one; a denial of God..

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

Peccavi :: Peccavi () I have sinned; -- used colloquially to express confession or acknowledgment of an offense.

Honest :: Honest (a.) Characterized by integrity or fairness and straight/forwardness in conduct, thought, speech, etc.; upright; just; equitable; trustworthy; truthful; sincere; free from fraud, guile, or duplicity; not false; -- said of persons and acts, and of things to which a moral quality is imputed; as, an honest judge or merchant; an honest statement; an honest bargain; an honest business; an honest book; an honest confession..

Penitencer :: Penitencer (n.) A priest who heard confession and enjoined penance in extraordinary cases.

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