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The open admittance of having done something (especially something bad).
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Without the real murderer's confession, an innocent person will go to jail.
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A formal document providing such an admission.
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He forced me to sign a confession!
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The disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution. In the Roman Catholic Church, it is now termed the sacrament of reconciliation.
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I went to confession and now I feel much better about what I had done.
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Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.
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A formula in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to membership of a church; a confession of faith.