confess

Определение confess в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь: To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed; To disclose or reveal
People confess to anything under torture.; {v} to acknowledge, grant, own, show; If someone confesses or confesses their sins, they tell God or a priest about their sins so that they can be forgiven. You just go to the church and confess your sins Once we have confessed our failures and mistakes to God, we should stop feeling guilty; To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience; confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith; admit, make a clean breast of; "She confessed that she had taken the money"; To acknowledge; to admit; to concede; confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure; If someone confesses to doing something wrong, they admit that they did it. He had confessed to seventeen murders I had expected her to confess that she only wrote these books for the money Most rape victims confess a feeling of helplessness Ray changed his mind, claiming that he had been forced into confessing `I played a very bad match,' he confessed. = admit deny; {f} admit (guilt, etc.); declare faith in; tell one's sins to a priest; politeness You use expressions like `I confess', `I must confess', or `I have to confess' to apologize slightly for admitting something you are ashamed of or that you think might offend or annoy someone. I confess it's got me baffled I must confess I'm not a great enthusiast for long political programmes. = admit; 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 hear or receive such confession; - - said of a priest; 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 disclose or reveal, as an effect discloses its cause; to prove; to attest; confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure; {f} disbosom; {f} avow oneself
confess¨: confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure
confess¨: admit, make a clean breast of; "She confessed that she had taken the money"
confess¨: confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith
confessed: Simple past tense and past participle of confess
confession: The open admittance of having done something (especially of something bad)
Without the real murderer's confession, an innocent person will go to jail.
confession: the disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution. Now termed the sacrament of reconciliation
Hauing diſpleaſ'd my Father, to Lawrence Cell, / To make confeſſion, and to be abſolu'd.
confessed: {a} owned, declared, told, allowed
confessedly: {a} avowedly, on purpose, actually
confessing: {a} confitent
confession: {n} an acknowledgment, a profession
Confessedly: admittedly
Confessedly: acknowledgedly
Confessedly: admitted
I confess: I admit (to a criminal act, emotion, etc.)
To confess: avouch
confessable: {s} able to be confessed, admittable, acknowledgeable
confessed: You use confessed to describe someone who openly admits that they have a particular fault or have done something wrong. She is is a confessed monarchist. = self-confessed. having admitted publicly that you have done something
confessed: past of confess
confessedly: admittedly, by confession
confessedly: By confession; without denial
confessedly: undeniably
confesses: third person singular of confess
confessing: present participle of confess
confession: (see sacrament of penance)
confession: A confession is a signed statement by someone in which they admit that they have committed a particular crime. They forced him to sign a confession
confession: John of Nepomuc, canon of Prague, suffered death rather than violate the seal of confession The Emperor Wenceslas ordered him to be thrown off a bridge into the Moldau, because he refused to reveal the confession of the empress He was canonised as St John Nepomucen
confession: A statement made by the accused admitting guilt Confessions which have been made freely and voluntarily may be allowed in court as evidence
confession: 1 An admission of guilt or other incriminating statement by the accused; not admissible at trial unless voluntarily made
confession: (Gr Exomologisis) The act of confessing or acknowledgment of sins by an individual before God in the presence of a priest, who serves as a spiritual guide and confessor (pneumatikos) authorized to ask for forgiveness and to administer a penance
confession: When someone admits, out loud or in writing, that they committed a certain crime (Compare with admission )
confession: An admission by a party to whom an act is imputed, in relation to such act
confession: Acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one's self; the admission of a debt, obligation, or crime
confession: Timelkit
confession: the open admittance of having done something (especially: something bad)
confession: a document that spells out the belief system of a given church (especially the Reformation churches of the 16th century)
confession: the disclosure of ones sins to a priest for absolution. Now termed the sacrament of reconciliation
confession: Autobiography regarded as a form of prose fiction, or prose fiction cast in the form of autobiography
confession: [Hebrew: Viddui ] Several times during Yom Kippur, it is customary to confess the bad things that we have done The prayer book contains lists of sins, arranged according to the letters of the Hebrew alphabet
confession: The act of disclosing one's sins In Catholicism, it is telling sins to a priest and the Lord forgives the person through the priest Biblically, confession of sins is done to the one offended without the mediatorship of a priest
confession: A statement by a person, either oral or written, admitting that he or she committed a certain offense (compare Admission)
confession: Words spoken about your sins, asking God for forgiveness
confession: 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
confession: (Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution a written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party a document that spells out the belief system of a given church (especially the Reformation churches of the 16th century) a public declaration of your faith an admission of misdeeds or faults
confession: In the Catholic church and in some other churches, if you go to confession, you privately tell a priest about your sins and ask for forgiveness. He never went to Father Porter for confession again. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, acknowledgment of sinfulness, in public or private, regarded as necessary for divine forgiveness. In the Temple period, Yom Kippur included a collective expression of sinfulness, and the day continues in Judaism as one of prayer, fasting, and confession. The early Christian Church followed John the Baptist's practice of confession before baptism, but soon instituted confession and penance for the forgiveness of sins committed after baptism. The fourth Lateran Council (1215) required annual confession. The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches consider penance a sacrament, but most Protestant churches do not
confession: A statement made by a person suspected or charged with a crime, that he (or she) did, in fact, commit that crime
confession: {i} admission (of guilt, sin, etc.); declaration of faith; telling of one's sins to a priest
confession: To agree with God about ourselves, to admit the truth about our sin to God and our need of him Sometimes this may need to be shared in confidence with another Christian who can stand with us (James 5: 16)
confession: The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution
confession: a written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party
confession: A judicial confession settles the issue to which it applies; an extrajudical confession may be explained or rebutted
confession: a public declaration of your faith
confession: Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith
confession: (Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution
confession: Confession is the act of admitting that you have done something that you are ashamed of or embarrassed about. The diaries are a mixture of confession and observation I have a confession to make
confession: If you make a confession of your beliefs or feelings, you publicly tell people that this is what you believe or feel. Tatyana's confession of love. = declaration
confession: Although the term refers primarily to the admission of sin, it acquired a rather different technical sense in the sixteenth century - that of a document which embodies the principles of faith of a Protestant church Thus the Augsburg Confession (1530) embodies the ideas of early Lutheranism, and the First Helvetic Confession (1536) those of the early Reformed church The term "Confessionalism" is often used to refer to the hardening of religious attitudes in the later sixteenth century, as the Lutheran and Reformed churches became involved in a struggle for power, especially in Germany The term "Confessional" is often used to refer to a church which defines itself with reference to such a document Confessions (which define denominations) should be distinguished from creeds (which transcend denominational boundaries)
confession: Telling our sins to an authorized priest of the Roman Catholic Church for the purpose of obtaining forgiveness Both mortal and venial sins must be confessed Failure to confess carries a punishment of hell for mortal sins and purgatory for venial sins See Sins (Catholic Belief)
confession: A prayer we say together to admit our sins to God and to ask His forgiveness This is often followed by a time of silent confession Confession comes at the beginning of worship because we have to tell the truth about ourselves before we can hear the truth of God's Word to us
confession: an admission of misdeeds or faults
confessions: plural of confession
must confess: have to admit

confess

Расстановка переносов

con·fess

Турецкое произношение

kınfes

Синонимы

acknowledge, affirm, allow, assert, attest, aver, avow, blow, blurt out, chirp, clue in, come clean, come out, concede, confide

Антонимы

conceal, deny, disavow, disown, hide, mask, repudiate, secrete

Произношение

/kənˈfes/ /kənˈfɛs/

Этимология

[ k&n-fes ] (verb.) 14th century. From Middle English confessen from Anglo-Norman confesser from Old French confesser from Medieval Latin confessāre, a derivative of Latin confessus (Old French confes), past participle of confitērī "to confess, admit" from con- + fatērī "to admit". Displaced Middle English andetten "to confess, admit" (from Old English andettan).