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confess - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'confess' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Confess [ v. i.]
- To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience.
- To acknowledge; to admit; to concede.
2 . Confess [ 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.
- To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
- To admit as true; to assent to; to acknowledge, as after a previous doubt, denial, or concealment.
- To make known or acknowledge, as one's sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.
- To hear or receive such confession; -- said of a priest.
- To disclose or reveal, as an effect discloses its cause; to prove; to attest.

Meaning of 'confess' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . confess [ v]
Meaning (1):
- admit (to a wrongdoing)
Example in sentence:
  • She confessed that she had taken the money