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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.

Confessionary :: Confessionary (n.) A confessional.

Pray :: Pray (v. i.) To make request with earnestness or zeal, as for something desired; to make entreaty or supplication; to offer prayer to a deity or divine being as a religious act; specifically, to address the Supreme Being with adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving..

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

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

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..

Confessionalist :: Confessionalist (n.) A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession..

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. t.) To hear or receive the confession of; to administer confession and absolution to; -- said of a priest as the agent.

Confess :: Confess (v. i.) To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience..

Licentiate :: Licentiate (n.) A friar authorized to receive confessions and grant absolution in all places, independently of the local clergy..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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