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

Render :: Render (v. i.) To give an account; to make explanation or 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..

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..

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

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

Confessional :: Confessional (n.) The recess, seat, or inclosed place, where a priest sits to hear confessions; often a small structure furnished with a seat for the priest and with a window or aperture so that the penitent who is outside may whisper into the priest's ear without being seen by him or heard by others..

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

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

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

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.

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

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..

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

Creed :: Creed (v. t.) A definite summary of what is believed; esp., a summary of the articles of Christian faith; a confession of faith for public use; esp., one which is brief and comprehensive..

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

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

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

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

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