CPage 518
- English Word Confess Definition To disclose or reveal, as an effect discloses its cause; to prove; to attest.
- English Word Confess Definition To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience.
- English Word Confess Definition To acknowledge; to admit; to concede.
- English Word Confessant Definition One who confesses to a priest.
- English Word Confessary Definition One who makes a confession.
- English Word Confessed Definition of Confess
- English Word Confessedly Definition By confession; without denial.
- English Word Confesser Definition One who makes a confession.
- English Word Confessing Definition of Confess
- English Word Confession Definition Acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one's self; the admission of a debt, obligation, or crime.
- English Word Confession Definition Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.
- English Word Confession Definition The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution.
- English Word Confession Definition A formulary 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.
- English Word Confession Definition An admission by a party to whom an act is imputed, in relation to such act. A judicial confession settles the issue to which it applies; an extrajudical confession may be explained or rebutted.
- English Word Confessional Definition The recess, seat, or inclosed place, where a priest sits to hear confessions; often a small structure furnished with a seat for the priest and with a window or aperture so that the penitent who is outside may whisper into the priest's ear without being seen by him or heard by others.
- English Word Confessional Definition Pertaining to a confession of faith.
- English Word Confessionalism Definition An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith.
- English Word Confessionalist Definition A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession.
- English Word Confessionary Definition A confessional.
- English Word Confessionary Definition Pertaining to auricular confession; as, a confessionary litany.