Word Finder - confess

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To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.

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I confess to spray-painting all over that mural!

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To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.

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To unburden (oneself) of sins to God or a priest, in order to receive absolution.

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To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.

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To disclose or reveal.

I don't confess to understanding what happened but it's fascinating.

To whom should I confess my blunder?

Confess that this is delightful, said he.

I confess I do not want to.

I must confess I was puzzled at first.

But if we pass from this criticism of form to the actual contents of the two books, we are bound to confess that they constitute a wonderfully cogent and persuasive theistic argument.

I will confess that I intended to eat the little pig for my breakfast; so I crept into the room where it was kept while the Princess was dressing and hid myself under a chair.

I confess, that practically speaking, when I have learned a man's real disposition, I have no hopes of changing it for the better or worse in this state of existence.

She was waiting for him to confess his reason for being in Arkansas.

The faithful are bound to confess all "mortal" sins; they need not confess "venial" sins.

On the one hand, a reluctance to confess that Hungary is no longer in any sense a part of Austria; on the other hand, the refusal of the Czechs to recognize that their country is part of Austria.

I was obliged to confess that I did not know, but suggested that it might be on one of the stars.

A youth who has murdered his mistress takes the bread of the Eucharist in his mouth, and his two hands are at once withered up. The apostle immediately invites him to confess the crime he must have committed, " for, he says, the Eucharist of the Lord hath convicted thee."

We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between the illiterateness of my townsman who cannot read at all and the illiterateness of him who has learned to read only what is for children and feeble intellects.

Again he had the door open, waiting for her to confess.

On the arrival of Lord Macartney as governor of Madras, the British fleet captured Negapatam, and forced Hyder Ali to confess that he could never ruin a power which had command of the sea.

I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises.

My house never pleased my eye so much after it was plastered, though I was obliged to confess that it was more comfortable.

Marya Dmitrievna, having found Sonya weeping in the corridor, made her confess everything, and intercepting the note to Natasha she read it and went into Natasha's room with it in her hand.

But he did forget himself once or twice within a twelvemonth, and then he would go and confess to his wife, and would again promise that this should really be the very last time.

Now, both the Korahite and Asaphic groups of psalms are remarkable that they hardly contain any recognition of present sin on the part of the community of Jewish faith - though they do confess the sin of Israel in the past - but are exercised with the observation that prosperity does not follow righteousness either in the case of the individual (xlix., lxxiii.) or in that of the nation, which suffers notwithstanding its loyalty to God, or even on account thereof (xliv., lxxix.).

They were by this forced to confess that they possessed no authority to negotiate.

But when he declined even under torture to confess that he had been guilty of extensive peculation, he was finally released.

I confess that I should like to have these basic concepts in sharper focus!

I must confess that I did not feel the slightest foreboding.

Logical analysis, after assuming that truth is independent and not of our making, has to confess that all logical operations involve an apparently arbitrary interference with their data (Bradley).

The Samaritans were prompt to claim like privileges, but were forced to confess that, though they were Hebrews, they were called the Sidonians of Shechem and were not Jews.

In the silence which followed his comment I must confess to having felt a certain childlike glee.

Really very good! said Nicholas with some unintentional superciliousness, as if ashamed to confess that the sounds pleased him very much.

Some will even confess to swiping pairs from their sisters or female friends.

John at first sought to conceal his share in the murder, but ultimately decided to confess to his uncles, and abruptly left Paris.

But nothing said would make Badby confess that "Christ sitting at supper did give to His disciples His living body to eat."

Men were also encouraged, by Chrysostom, to confess their secret sins secretly to God.

The knight screamed for mercy and promised to confess his crime.

I confess to being a little giddy about this.

My spreadsheet file is available for anyone to unravel but I have to confess that for various reasons it has gone largely undocumented.

I must confess to a weakness for a well turned heel - nothing too high or too vulgar.

But it must be noted that, according to the orthodox doctrine, not only can an Indulgence not remit future sins, but even for the past it cannot take full effect unless the subject be truly contrite and have confessed (or intend shortly to confess) his sins.

In 1669 an unworthy follower - Daniel Scargil by name, a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge - had to recant publicly and confess that his evil life had been the result of Hobbist doctrines.

For a whole week it has been "cold and dark and dreary" in Tuscumbia, and I must confess the continuous rain and dismalness of the weather fills me with gloomy thoughts and makes the writing of letters, or any pleasant employment, seem quite impossible.

Well, I must confess, I do not like the sign-language, and I do not think it would be of much use to the deaf-blind.

I confess all these festivities and fireworks are becoming wearisome.

I confess to being spellbound when I stand outside on a starry night and simply gaze upwards.

I have to confess to being a tad disappointed with some of the exhibits.

Eight of the team 's nine riders confess to drug taking.

I think Mademoiselle Lucy will now confess that the cord and gallows are amply earned; she trembles in anticipation of her doom.

Deraiya was razed to the ground and the principal towns of Nejd were compelled to admit Egyptian garrisons; but though the Arabs saw themselves powerless to stand before disciplined troops, the Egyptians, on the other hand, had to confess that without useless sacrifices they could not retain their hold on the interior.

Every item of the evidence was naturally subjected to the closest scrutiny, but at last the conservatives were forced reluctantly to confess themselves beaten.

At last the priests gained control of the elections; the victor of Waterloo was obliged to confess that the king's government could no longer be carried on, and Catholic emancipation had to be granted in 1829.

Instead, the special military courts approved by President Dubya will give the terrorists the opportunity to freely confess their sins.