Word Meanings - BEKNOW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To confess; to acknowledge. Chaucer.

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• CONFESSION
  The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution. Auricular confession . . . or the private and special confession of sins to a priest for the purpose of obtaining his absolution. Hallam. 4. A formulary
• CONFESSER
  One who makes a confession.
• CONFESSIONALISM
  An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith. Shaff.
• ACKNOWLEDGE
  1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own
• CONFESSIONIST
  One professing a certain faith. Bp. Montagu.
• ACKNOWLEDGER
  One who acknowledges.
• CONFESSIONALIST
  A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession. Boucher
• CONFESSIONARY
  A confessional. Johnson.
• CONFESSORSHIP
  The act or state of suffering persecution for religious faith. Our duty to contend even to confessorship. J. H. Newman.
• CONFESSARY
  One who makes a confession. Bp. Hall.
• CONFESSOR
  1. One who confesses; one who acknowledges a fault, or the truth of a charge, at the risk of suffering; specifically, one who confesses himself a follower of Christ and endures persecution for his faith. He who dies for religion is a martyr; he
• ACKNOWLEDGEDLY
  Confessedly.
• CONFESS
  1. To make acknowledgment or avowal in a matter pertaining to one's self; to acknowledge, own, or admit, as a crime, a fault, a debt. And there confess Humbly our faults, and pardon beg. Milton. I must confess I was most pleased with a beautiful
• CONFESSIONAL
  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
• CONFESSANT
  One who confesses to a priest. Bacon.
• CONFESSEDLY
  By confession; without denial.
• DISACKNOWLEDGE
  To refuse to acknowledge; to deny; to disown. South.