Word Meanings - CONFESSEDLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

By confession; without denial.

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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
• 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
• CONFESSIONALISM
  An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith. Shaff.
• CONFESSIONIST
  One professing a certain faith. Bp. Montagu.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• CONFESSIONALIST
  A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession. Boucher
• CONFESSIONARY
  A confessional. Johnson.
• DENIAL
  1. The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation. You ought to converse with so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. A refusal to admit the truth
• WITHOUTEN
  Without. Chaucer.
• WITHOUT
  1. On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without doors. Without the gate Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein. Dryden. 2. Out of the limits of; out of reach of; beyond. Eternity, before the world and after, is without our
• SELF-DENIAL
  The denial of one's self; forbearing to gratify one's own desires; self-sacrifice.