Word
Confess
How many syllables?
2 Syllables
How it's divided?
con-fess
Definition
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
- v. t. - To admit as true; to assent to; to acknowledge, as
after a previous doubt, denial, or concealment.
- v. t. - To make known or acknowledge, as one's sins to a
priest, in order to receive absolution; -- sometimes followed by the
reflexive pronoun.
- v. t. - To hear or receive such confession; -- said of a
priest.
- v. t. - To disclose or reveal, as an effect discloses its
cause; to prove; to attest.
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