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Confessionary :: Confessionary (n.) A confessional.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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..

Confess :: Confess (v. t.) To hear or receive such confession; -- said of a priest.

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

Boot :: Boot (n.) An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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