avowalformal
an occasion when a Christian tells God or, especially in the Roman Catholic Church, tells a priest formally and privately, what they have done wrong so that they can be forgiven: 忏悔，告罪
Have you been to confession recently?你最近进行过忏悔吗？
The priest heard his confession.神父听取了他的忏悔。
After being questioned by the police for two days, Johnson signed a confession.
The two men allege that the police forced them to make false confessions.这两名男子声称警方逼迫他们作假口供。
One day he just walked into his local police station and made a full confession.
It was such an extraordinary confession that I couldn't think what to say in reply.
Her confession was no surprise to him, as he had long suspected that she had a secret lover.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Admitting & confessing
acknowledge something as something
acknowledgedly
acknowledgment
admission of guilt
admittedly
avowedly
breastbeating
clean
climb down
come cleanidiom
confess
hand
retraction
self-admittedly
self-confessed
self-confessedly
self-confession
stand
swallow your wordsidiom
take something back

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confession | American Dictionary

confession
noun[ C/U ]
us/kənˈfeʃ·ən/
Confession is the activity of telling God or a priest what you have done wrong so God will forgive you.

Examples of confession

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After that, both accusations and confessions proliferated at a rapid rate.
Table 3 lists the fifty individuals whose confessions have been recorded.
Revivalists' public confessions of sin looked like cleansing ceremonies.
Such stories (or reports, confessions, films, series of photos/sketches, etc.) could be fully documentary or fictions closely following true events.
First, in order for the priests to have assigned penances, the soldiers must have made individual confessions.
There was neither a shortage of ' supergrasses ', nor of confessions of various kinds.
She casts her lyrical confessions against the crudeness of her world, and against the parody embodied by the other characters.
80 which several communal confessions attribute communal ritual practices of unstated significance.
Critics from both confessions condemned the attempt to divine a certain future and attempted to draw a clear distinction between natural, diabolical and divine signs.
At the time the court began building its docket only five confessions had been offered.
The only available textual evidence is confessions taken during the hearing.
The cacophony of rumours, denunciations, apocryphal tales, sightings, clues and confessions that swept the streets - in many cases before police had even launched their investigation - only intensified the sentiment.
The postwar demobilised writer brought a sense of entitlement to his confessions that had eluded his prewar peer group and was missing in letters from non-veteran youngsters.
The clergyman's duties arise not from his putative existence as a rational being, but from the office he holds as a teacher in one of several public confessions.
The decisive point, however, is that this information is not markedly different in content from the depositions and confessions subsequently given by captured thugs-be it in 1810 or 1829.
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alleged confession
If we pass the amendment the element of causality between the behaviour of the prosecution and the allegedconfession is totally removed.
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