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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..

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..

Confession :: Confession (n.) The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution.

Acknowledgment :: Acknowledgment (n.) The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession.

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..

Confessionary :: Confessionary (n.) A confessional.

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..

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

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

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

Prayer :: Prayer (v. i.) The act of addressing supplication to a divinity, especially to the true God; the offering of adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving to the Supreme Being; as, public prayer; secret prayer..

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..

Confessedly :: Confessedly (adv.) By confession; without denial.

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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