Dictionary Entry
confession
confession is a 10-letter English word with 10 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one's self; the admission of a debt, obligation, or crime. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 18 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one's self; the admission of a debt, obligation, or crime.
- 2noun
Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.
- 3noun
The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
(Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution
- 7noun
a written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party
- 8noun
the document that spells out the belief system of a given church (especially the Reformation churches of the 16th century)
- 9noun
a public declaration of your faith
- 10noun
an admission of misdeeds or faults
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