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Meaning of 'confess'
Meaning of 'confess' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Confess 
[ v. i.]
- To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the
state of the conscience. [ v. i.]- 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. [ v. t.]- 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]
[ v]Meaning (1):
- admit (to a wrongdoing)
- admit (to a wrongdoing)
Example in sentence:
- She confessed that she had taken the money
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